circular_tree {BoSSA}

Plot an inside-out circular tree

Description

Plot a tree in a circular manner with the tips pointing inward

Usage

circular_tree(phy,ratio=0.5,def=1000,pos_out=FALSE,tip_labels=TRUE,cex_tips=0.5)

Arguments

phy

a class phylo object

ratio

the ratio of the tree size compared to the plot size

def

the def parameter controls the granularity of the curves

pos_out

a matrix with the x and y coordinates of the branches extremities (i.e. nodes and tips) is outputed when set to TRUE

tip_labels

whether or not the tiplabels should be plotted

cex_tips

the size of the tiplabels

Details

The function plot a tree in a circular manner. Note that the tree will produce a correct output only if there is no topology modifications after reading the original tree using the ape read.tree function.

Value

a plot

Author(s)

pierre lefeuvre

Examples

library(ape)

test_tree <- rtree(20)

circular_tree(test_tree)