read.tree {rbiom}

Read a newick formatted phylogenetic tree.

Description

A phylogenetic tree is required for computing UniFrac distance matrices. You can load a tree either from a file or by providing the tree string directly. This tree must be in Newick format, also known as parenthetic format and New Hampshire format.

Usage

read.tree(src)

Arguments

src

Input data as either a file path, URL, or Newick string. URLs must begin with http://, https://, ftp://, or ftps://. Newick strings must have ( as their first non-whitespace character. Compressed (gzip or bzip2) Newick files are also supported.

Value

A phylo class object representing the tree.

Examples

    library(rbiom)
    
    infile <- system.file("extdata", "newick.tre", package = "rbiom")
    tree <- read.tree(infile)
    
    tree <- read.tree("
        (t9:0.99,((t5:0.87,t2:0.89):0.51,(((t10:0.16,(t7:0.83,t4:0.96)
        :0.94):0.69,(t6:0.92,(t3:0.62,t1:0.85):0.54):0.23):0.74,t8:0.1
        2):0.43):0.67);")