genCombTree {poweRbal}

Generation of the comb or caterpillar tree

Description

genCombTree - Generates the rooted binary comb tree (also known as caterpillar tree) in phylo format with the given number of n leaves.
Due to the restrictions of the phylo or multiphylo format the number of leaves must be at least 2 since there must be at least one edge.

Usage

genCombTree(n)

Arguments

n

Integer value that specifies the desired number of leaves, i.e., vertices with in-degree 1 and out-degree 0.

Value

genCombTree A single tree of class phylo is returned.

Author(s)

Sophie Kersting

References

• D. Aldous. Probability Distributions on Cladograms. In Random Discrete Structures, pages 1–18. Springer New York, 1996.

Examples

genCombTree(n = 6)