R: Generate all bi- and multifurcating unrooted trees

allFurcTrees {phytools}

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Generate all bi- and multifurcating unrooted trees

This function creates all possible unrooted bi- and multifurcating trees and returns a list of trees as an object of class "multiPhylo".

allFurcTrees(n, tip.label=NULL, to.plot=TRUE)

`n`	an integer giving the desired number of species.
`tip.label`	an optional vector of length n containing the tip names.
`to.plot`	an optional logical value indicating whether or not to plot the trees.

This function should be used with caution for n greater than about 8, as in this case the number of possible trees is extremely large.

A list of trees as an object of class "multiPhylo".

Felsenstein, J. 2004. Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer.

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.