mergeMappedStates: Merge two or more mapped states into one state

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

Merge two or more mapped states into one state

Description

Merges two or mapped states on the tree to get one new state.

Usage

mergeMappedStates(tree, old.states, new.state)

Arguments

tree	an object of class "simmap" or "multiSimmap" containing one or more phylogenetic trees with a mapped discrete character.
old.states	states to merge.
new.state	name for new state.

Details

mergeMappedStates can be used to merge two or more mapped states into a single, new state. For instance, one could merge the states "C", "G", and "T" and define the new the state "not-A".

Value

An object of class "simmap" or "multiSimmap".

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

make.simmap, read.simmap

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