dist.phylo {ape}R Documentation

Pairwise Distances from a Phylogenetic Tree

Description

This function computes the pairwise distances between the pairs of tips from a phylogenetic tree using the branch lengths of the latter.

Usage

dist.phylo(phy)

Arguments

phy an object of class "phylo".

Value

a numeric matrix with the names of the tips (as given by the element tip.label of the argument phy) as colnames and rownames.

Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis paradis@isem.univ-montp2.fr

See Also

read.tree to read tree files in Newick format


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