unique.multiPhylo: Revomes Duplicate Trees

In gjuggler/ape: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

Description

This function scans a list of trees, and returns a list with the duplicate trees removed. By default the labelled topologies are compared.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'multiPhylo'
unique(x, incomparables = FALSE,
        use.edge.length = FALSE,
        use.tip.label = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	an object of class "multiPhylo".
incomparables	unused (for compatibility with the generic).
use.edge.length	a logical specifying whether to consider the edge lengths in the comparisons; the default is FALSE.
use.tip.label	a logical specifying whether to consider the tip labels in the comparisons; the default is TRUE.
...	further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

an object of class "multiPhylo" which is a list of objects of class "phylo".

Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis [e-mail]

See Also

all.equal.phylo, unique for the generic R function, read.tree, read.nexus

Examples

TR <- rmtree(50, 4)
length(unique(TR)) # not always 15...
howmanytrees(4)

gjuggler/ape documentation built on May 17, 2019, 6:03 a.m.