as.phylo.dendrogram: Convert a dendrogram to a "phylo" object.

In phylogram: Dendrograms for Evolutionary Analysis

Description

This function converts a dendrogram into an object of class "phylo" (see Paradis et al 2004).

Usage

## S3 method for class 'dendrogram'
as.phylo(x, ...)

Arguments

x	a dendrogram.
...	further arguments to be passed between methods.

Value

an object of class "phylo".

Author(s)

Shaun Wilkinson

References

Paradis E, Claude J, Strimmer K, (2004) APE: analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R language. Bioinformatics 20, 289-290.

Paradis E (2008) Definition of Formats for Coding Phylogenetic Trees in R. http://ape-package.ird.fr/misc/FormatTreeR_24Oct2012.pdf

Paradis E (2012) Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R (Second Edition). Springer, New York.

Examples

  newick <- "(A:0.1,B:0.2,(C:0.3,D:0.4):0.5);"
  x <- read.dendrogram(text = newick)
  y <- as.phylo(x)
  z <- as.dendrogram(y)

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