expand.clade: Expands (or contracts) the tip-spacing of a given clade or...

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expand.cladeR Documentation

Expands (or contracts) the tip-spacing of a given clade or clades

Description

Modify the tip-spacing of a plotted tree.

Usage

expand.clade(tree, node, factor=5)
## S3 method for class 'expand.clade'
plot(x, ...)

Arguments

tree

tree an object of class "phylo" or "simmap".

node

node index or vector of node indices.

factor

expansion factor for the tip-spacing of the taxa descended from node or nodes in node.

x

for plot method, an object of class "expand.clade".

...

optional arguments to be passed to plotTree or plotSimmap, depending on the class of x$tree.

Details

The purpose of this function is to compute a custom tip-spacing for users who want to expand or contract the tip-spacing of the descendant taxa from a given node or nodes.

Value

The function returns an object of class "expand.clade" which consists of the (possibly re-ordered) tree and a numerical vector with the calculated tip spacing based on the expansion factor specified by the user.

This object can be plotted using the S3 plot method for the object class; or it can be plotted simply by calling a standard plotting function on the tree & tip spacings.

Author(s)

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

References

Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.


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