drop.leaves {phytools}

Drop all the leaves (tips) from a tree

Description

Drops all the leaves from a tree, leaving behind only the structure leading to internal nodes.

Usage

drop.leaves(tree, ...)

Arguments

tree

object of class "phylo".

...

optional arguments. Presently includes only the logical value keep.tip.labels which tells the function how to labels the tips on the reduced tree.

Value

An object of class "phylo".

Author(s)

Liam Revell [e-mail]

References

Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.