KillAllDuplicates: KillAllDuplicates

In bomeara/prepotol: Prepares trees for uploading to Open Tree of Life

Description

Remove duplicate taxa from the tree

Usage

KillAllDuplicates(phy)

Arguments

phy	a phylo object

Details

This finds any duplicate taxa and deletes ALL of them (so if a taxon appears on a tree twice, both instances are removed).

Value

returns a pruned phylo object

Author(s)

Brian O'Meara

Examples

phy <- read.tree(text="(((a,b),c),(d,(e,a)));")
sort(table(phy$tip.label), decreasing=TRUE)
phy.pruned <- KillAllDuplicates(phy)
sort(table(phy.pruned$tip.label), decreasing=TRUE)

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