load.tree {phylocanvas}

load tree

Description

load a newick tree.

Usage

load.tree(treefile, ...)

Arguments

treefile

Required. Path of phylogenetic tree to read

...

Optional. Pass any other arguments to read.tree

Details

this is the recommended way to load a tree for use with phylocanvas. The reason is that all of the javascript selector methods require that the nodes are named and the selection of nodes based on names is straightforward with phylo4 objects. Therefore this function will read your newick tree, add names, and return a phylo4 object that can be easily manipulated and subsetted generating custom displays.

Value

a phylo4 tree object.

Examples

birdfile <- system.file("treedata/birdfamilies.tree", package="phylocanvas")
tree <- load.tree(birdfile)