drop.leaves: Drop all the leaves (tips) from a tree

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drop.leavesR Documentation

Drop all the leaves (tips) from a tree

Description

Drops all the leaves from a tree, leaving behind only the structure leading to internal nodes.

Usage

drop.leaves(tree, ...)

Arguments

tree

object of class "phylo".

...

optional arguments. Presently includes only the logical value keep.tip.labels which tells the function how to labels the tips on the reduced tree.

Value

An object of class "phylo".

Author(s)

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

References

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


phytools documentation built on June 22, 2024, 10:39 a.m.