cherries: Cherry number
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cherries

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Cherry number

Description

Finds the number of cherries in a tree. A cherry is considered to be a pair of sister tips.

Usage

cherries(tree, normalise = FALSE)

Arguments

`tree`	a tree of class `phylo` or `phylo4`. The tree should be binary and rooted; if not it will be coerced into a binary rooted tree using multi2di, if possible.
`normalise`	option to normalise the result, default is `FALSE`.

Value

An integer representing the number of cherries in the tree.

Author(s)

Michelle Kendall michelle.louise.kendall@gmail.com

Examples

## Find the number of cherries in a random tree with 10 tips:
tree <- rtree(10)
plot(tree)
cherries(tree)
# and the normalised cherry number:
cherries(tree, normalise=TRUE)

## Note that the function configShow can be used to highlight the cherries in the tree:
configShow(tree, 2, edge.width=2)

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