treedist: Distance between two trees
In bomeara/phybase: Basic functions for phylogenetic analysis

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This function calculates the distance between two trees.

1	treedist(tree1,tree2)

`tree1`	the first tree node matrix
`tree2`	the second tree node matrix

The function returns the RF distance of two trees.

Liang Liu lliu@uga.edu

pair.dist, partition.tree

treestr1<-"((((H:0.00402,C:0.00402):0.00304,G:0.00706):0.00929,O:0.01635):0.1,W:0.11635);"
treestr2<-"((((H:0.00402,G:0.00402):0.00304,C:0.00706):0.00929,O:0.01635):0.1,W:0.11635);"
name<-species.name(treestr1)
nodematrix1<-read.tree.nodes(treestr1,name)$nodes
nodematrix2<-read.tree.nodes(treestr2,name)$nodes
treedist(nodematrix1,nodematrix2)