reduceTree: Reduce tree by taxonomic rank

In DomBennett/MoreTreeTools: Tools for manipulating phylogenetic trees

Description

Reduce tips by identifying tips in the same taxonomic group at a specifed taxonomic rank

Usage

reduceTree(tree, level, datasource = 4)

Arguments

tree	phylogenetic tree (ape class)
level	rank by which tips will be reduce (e.g. kingdom)
datasource	a number indicating the GNR datasource to search against

Details

Search Global Names Resolver to find shared taxonomic groups of all tips. Reduce tree by condensing members of the same taxonomic group into a single tip. The user can specify at what rank the tree should be reduced. N.B. unresolved names are dropped from the tree and are not represented in tip counts.

References

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

Examples

# example.var <- exampleFun (test.data)

DomBennett/MoreTreeTools documentation built on May 6, 2019, 2:51 p.m.