minSplit {phytools} | R Documentation |
This function takes a phylogenetic tree and a list of splits and identifies the split with the smallest summed or summed squared distances to all the other splits. Used to be called min.split()
but was changed to avoid conflict with the generic min
.
minSplit(tree, split.list, method="sum", printD=FALSE)
tree |
a phylogeny stored as an object of class |
split.list |
either a matrix with two named columns, |
method |
an optional string indicating the criterion to minimize: options are |
printD |
logical specifying whether to print distances to screen ( |
A list with the following components:
node |
node for the minimum split. |
bp |
location on the branch leading to |
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.
Revell, L. J., D. L. Mahler, P. Peres-Neto, and B. D. Redelings (2012) A new method for identifying exceptional phenotypic diversification. Evolution, 66, 135-146.
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