ansi_phylo: Graph a phylogeny using only ANSI characters

In phytools: Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

Graph a phylogeny using only ANSI characters

Description

Plots a phylogeny in a silly, ANSI graphics style.

Usage

ansi_phylo(tree, vertical=c("|","-"), ...)

Arguments

tree	object of class "phylo".
vertical	character for vertical lines
...	optional arguments.

Value

A plotted tree.

Author(s)

Liam Revell [e-mail]

References

Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.

See Also

plotTree, splinePhylogram

Examples

## load trees
data(salamanders)
data(sunfish.tree)

## plot using defaults
ansi_phylo(salamanders)

## plot using special characters
ansi_phylo(sunfish.tree,vertical="//",horizontal="*",
    xlim=c(0,0.3),fsize=0.9)

## reset par to default
par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1))

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