IndexW: W index value for a single topology.
In jrich: Jack-Knife Support for Evolutionary Distinctiveness Indices I and W

Description Usage Arguments Author(s) Examples

This function assigns the weight according to the ramification patterns (see Van-Wright et al., 1981). The input tree is reordered in post order. Returns a vector with weights.

1	IndexW(tree = tree)

tree

is a single tree with n terminals, an ape phylo object.

Miranda-Esquivel Daniel R.

  library(jrich)
  data(tree)
  plot(tree)
  indexw             <- IndexW(tree)
  newTree            <- tree
  newTree$tip.label  <- indexw
  plot(newTree)