treedist {phangorn}R Documentation

Distances between trees

Description

treedist computes different tree distance methods and RF.dist the Robinson-Foulds distance.

Usage

treedist(tree1, tree2)
RF.dist(tree1, tree2, check.labels=TRUE)

Arguments

tree1 A phylogenetic tree.
tree2 A phylogenetic tree.
check.labels compares labels of the trees.

Value

treedist returns a vector containing the following tree distance methods

symmetric.difference symmetric.difference or Robinson-Foulds distance
branch.score.difference branch.score.difference
path.difference path.difference
weighted.path.difference weighted.path.difference

Author(s)

Klaus P. Schliep klaus.schliep@gmail.com

References

Steel M. A. and Penny P. (1993) Distributions of tree comparison metrics - some new results, Syst. Biol.,42(2), 126-141


[Package phangorn version 0.99-6 Index]