rmNodes: Remove nodes from a tree

In DomBennett/treeman: Phylogenetic Tree Manipulation Class and Methods

Description

Returns a tree with a node ID(s) removed

Usage

rmNodes(tree, nids, progress = "none")

Arguments

tree	TreeMan object
nids	internal node IDs
progress	name of the progress bar to use, see create_progress_bar

Details

Removes nodes in a tree. Joins the nodes following to the nodes preceding the node to be removed. Creates polytomies. Warning: do not use this function to remove tip nodes, this create a corrupted tree.

See Also

addTip, rmTips, https://github.com/DomBennett/treeman/wiki/manip-methods

Examples

library(treeman)
tree <- randTree(10)
tree <- rmNodes(tree, 'n3')
summary(tree)  # tree is now polytmous

DomBennett/treeman documentation built on Nov. 12, 2020, 1:35 p.m.