splitEdgeColor: Split edge colors when descendant edges have different mapped...

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Split edge colors when descendant edges have different mapped states

Description

Splits the vertical linking-line color on a plotted tree to match the daughter edges.

Usage

splitEdgeColor(tree,colors,lwd=2)

Arguments

tree	object of class "simmap".
colors	named vector of colors to be used for plotting.
lwd	width of the plotted lines.

Details

This function splits the vertical line colors to match the daughter edges when the daughters have different states. Mostly to be used with trees generated using paintBranches or paintSubTree. Also used internally by plotSimmap.

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

plotSimmap

phytools documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 5:11 p.m.