listDD {adephylo}R Documentation

List direct descendants for all nodes of a tree

Description

The function listDD lists the direct descendants from each node of a tree. The tree can be of class phylo, phylo4 or phylo4d.

Usage

listDD(x, nameBy=c("label","number"))

Arguments

x A tree of class phylo, phylo4 or phylo4d.
nameBy a character string indicating whether the returned list must be named by node labels ("label") or by node numbers ("number").

Value

A list whose components are vectors of named nodes (or tips) for a given internal node.

Author(s)

Thibaut Jombart tjombart@imperial.ac.uk

See Also

listTips which lists the tips descending from each node.

treePart which defines partitions of tips according to the tree topology.

Examples

if(require(ape) & require(phylobase)){
## make a tree
x <- as(rtree(20),"phylo4")
plot(x,show.node=TRUE)
listDD(x)
}

[Package adephylo version 1.0-2 Index]