TrivialTree: Generate trivial trees

In TreeTools: Create, Modify and Analyse Phylogenetic Trees

Generate trivial trees

Description

SingleTaxonTree() creates a phylogenetic "tree" that contains a single taxon. ZeroTaxonTree() creates an empty phylo object with zero leaves or edges.

Usage

SingleTaxonTree(label = "t1", lengths = NULL)

ZeroTaxonTree()

Arguments

label	a character vector specifying the label of the tip.
lengths	a numeric vector specifying the edge lengths of the tree.

Value

SingleTaxonTree() returns a phylo object containing a single tip with the specified label.

ZeroTaxonTree() returns an empty phylo object.

See Also

Other tree manipulation: AddTip(), CollapseNode(), ConsensusWithout(), DropTip(), EnforceOutgroup(), ImposeConstraint(), KeptPaths(), KeptVerts(), LeafLabelInterchange(), MakeTreeBinary(), Renumber(), RenumberTips(), RenumberTree(), RootTree(), SortTree(), Subtree(), TipTimedTree()

Other tree generation functions: ConstrainedNJ(), GenerateTree, NJTree(), TreeNumber

Examples

SingleTaxonTree("Homo_sapiens")
plot(SingleTaxonTree("root") + BalancedTree(4))

ZeroTaxonTree()

TreeTools documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:18 p.m.