nodeHeights {phytools}R Documentation

Compute the heights above the root of each node

Description

nodeHeights computes the height above the root for all nodes in the tree. nodeheight computes the height above the root for a single node.

Usage

nodeHeights(tree)
nodeheight(tree, node)

Arguments

tree

a phylogeny as an object of class "phylo".

node

for nodeheight, the node for which we want to compute a height above the root.

Details

The function nodeHeights also gives a handy way to get the total length of the tree from the root to the heighest tip which will be given by max(nodeHeights(tree)). Generally speaking, nodeHeights will be faster if the heights of all or a large proportion of nodes is needed, wherease nodeheight will be faster if the height of one or a small number of nodes are needed.

Value

Either a matrix of the same dimensions as tree$edge containing the height above the root of each node in edge (for nodeHeights); or a single positive number (for nodeheight).

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

vcvPhylo

Examples

tree<-rtree(10)
X<-nodeHeights(tree)
[Package phytools version 0.4-60 Index]