multiRF {phytools} | R Documentation |
Computes Robinson-Foulds distance between a set of trees
Description
Computes the Robinson-Foulds (Robinson & Foulds 1981) distance between a set of trees in an object of class "multiPhylo"
.
Usage
multiRF(trees,quiet=FALSE,multi2di=FALSE)
Arguments
trees |
object of class |
quiet |
logical argument indicating whether or not to run quietly. (Defaults to |
multi2di |
logical argument indicating whether or not to resolve multifurcating trees. (Defaults to |
Details
Computes the Robinson-Foulds distance between all phylogenies in an object of class "multiPhylo"
. Uses prop.part
internally for most of the heavy lifting.
Value
A matrix containing distances.
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.
Robinson, D. R., Foulds, L. R. (1981) Comparison of phylogenetic trees. Mathematical Biosciences, 53, 131-147.