getAncestor: Find the ancestor of a node or tip

In wu-lab-uva/RasperGade: Reconstructing Ancestral State under Pulsed Evolution in R by Gaussian Decomposition

Find the ancestor of a node or tip

Description

Utility functions to find the ancestors of a node or tip

Usage

getLatestAncestor(phy, x)

getAncestor(phy, x, level = 1, trace = FALSE)

Arguments

phy	a phylo-class object from the ape package
x	the index of the focal node/tip
level	the depth between the ancestor and the focal node/tip
trace	logical, if FALSE (the default), only the earliest ancestor is returned, otherwise, all ancestors along the path are returned

Value

A vector of ancestor indices is returned. If root is supplied, NA will be returned

See Also

[getRoot][getNextDescendants][findSisters][getConnected]

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