getDescendants {phytools} | R Documentation |
Get descendant node numbers
Description
Returns the descendants or parent of a specified node.
Usage
getDescendants(tree, node, curr=NULL)
getParent(tree, node)
Arguments
tree |
a phylogenetic tree as an object of class |
node |
an integer specifying a node number in the tree. |
curr |
the set of previously stored node numbers - used in recursive function calls. |
Details
getDescendants
returns the set of node & tip numbers descended from node
.
getParent
returns the single parent node of a specified node number (or NULL
if node
is already the root).
Value
The set of node and tip numbers for the nodes and tips descended from node
in a vector, or for getParent
the single node preceding node
in the tree.
Author(s)
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
References
Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.
See Also
[Package phytools version 2.3-0 Index]