treeSlice {phytools} | R Documentation |
This function slices a tree at a particular height above the root and returns all subtrees or all non-trivial subtrees (i.e., subtrees with more than 1 taxon). Uses extract.clade
in the "ape" package.
treeSlice(tree, slice, trivial=FALSE)
tree |
is a phylogenetic tree in |
slice |
a real number indicating the height above the root at which to slice the tree. |
trivial |
a logical value indicating whether or not to return subtrees with a number of tips less than two (default is |
An object of class "phylo"
or "multiPhylo"
.
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.