hasSingle {phylobase}

Test trees for polytomies, inline nodes (singletons), or reticulation

Description

Methods to test whether trees have (structural) polytomies, inline nodes (i.e., nodes with a single descendant), or reticulation (i.e., nodes with more than one ancestor). hasPoly only check for structural polytomies (1 node has more than 2 descendants) and not polytomies that result from having edges with a length of 0.

Usage

hasSingle(object)

## S4 method for signature 'phylo4'
hasSingle(object)

hasRetic(object)

## S4 method for signature 'phylo4'
hasRetic(object)

hasPoly(object)

## S4 method for signature 'phylo4'
hasPoly(object)

Arguments

object

an object inheriting from class phylo4

Value

Logical value

Note

Some algorithms are unhappy with structural polytomies (i.e., >2 descendants from a node), with single-descendant nodes, or with reticulation; these functions check those properties. We haven't bothered to check for zero branch lengths: the consensus is that it doesn't come up much, and that it's simple enough to test any(edgeLength(x) == 0) in these cases. (Single-descendant nodes are used e.g. in OUCH, or in other cases to represent events occurring along a branch.)

Author(s)

Ben Bolker

Examples

tree.owls.bis <- ape::read.tree(text="((Strix_aluco:4.2,Asio_otus:4.2):3.1,Athene_noctua:7.3);")
owls4 <- as(tree.owls.bis, "phylo4")
hasPoly(owls4)
hasSingle(owls4)