fossils {FossilSim}R Documentation

Fossils object

Description

Create a fossil record object. The input is taken to be a dataframe or list.

Usage

fossils(data = NULL, from.taxonomy = FALSE)

as.fossils(data, from.taxonomy = FALSE)

is.fossils(data)

Arguments

data

Dataframe or list of sampled fossils. See Details for the list of required fields. If NULL, the function creates an empty fossils object.

from.taxonomy

Boolean indicating whether the fossils were sampled using a taxonomy object, as opposed to a tree object. Default = FALSE.

Details

The fossil record object contains 4 fields for each fossil with the following information:


[Package FossilSim version 2.3.3 Index]