reBalance: Change balance of tree

In DomBennett/MoreTreeTools: Tools for manipulating phylogenetic trees

Description

Return a tree with balance changed.

Usage

reBalance(tree, steps)

Arguments

tree	phylogenetic tree (ape class)
steps	number of tip switches to perform

Details

The functions switches tips in tree to make the tree more or less balanced. If steps is positive, the tree will be made more balanced else more unbalanced. Steps determines the number of tip switches in a balanced or unbalanced direction.

References

No references yet! https://github.com/DomBennett/MoreTreeTools.

Examples

# Make an unbalanced tree balanced
n <- 16
tree <- compute.brlen (stree (n, 'left'))
plot (tree, show.tip.label=FALSE, edge.width=2, main='Unbalanced')
# +11 steps to make tree balanced
tree <- reBalance (tree, 11)
plot (tree, show.tip.label=FALSE, edge.width=2, main='Rebalanced')

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