getBranchTimes {surface}

Extract Branching Times from an ouch Tree

Description

Extracts the time from root of each node in an ouchtree or hansentree formatted phylogenetic tree; used to compute the timing of regime shifts in a Hansen model

Usage

getBranchTimes(h)

Arguments

h

Fitted ouchtree or hansentree object

Value

A vector of branching times

Author(s)

Travis Ingram

References

Ingram, T. & Mahler, D.L. (2013) SURFACE: detecting convergent evolution from comparative data by fitting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models with stepwise AIC. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4: 416-425.

Examples

data(surfaceDemo)
tree<-surfaceDemo$tree
dat<-surfaceDemo$sim$dat
olist<-convertTreeData(tree,dat)
otree<-olist[[1]]
getBranchTimes(otree)