getDescendants {phytools}R Documentation

Get descendant node numbers

Description

This function returns the set of node & tip numbers descended from node.

Usage

getDescendants(tree, node, curr=NULL)

Arguments

tree

a phylogenetic tree as an object of class "phylo".

node

an integer specifying a node number in the tree.

curr

the set of previously stored node numbers - used in recursive function calls.

Value

The set of node and tip numbers for the nodes and tips descended from node in a vector.

Author(s)

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

References

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

See Also

paintSubTree

[Package phytools version 0.4-60 Index]