ape (version 1.8-4)

multi2di: Collapse and Resolve Multichotomies

Description

These two functions collapse or resolve multichotomies in phylogenetic trees (objects of class "phylo").

Usage

multi2di(phy, random = TRUE)
di2multi(phy, tol = 1e-08)

Value

Both functions return an object of class "phylo".

Details

multi2di transforms all multichotomies into a series of dichotomies with one (or several) branch(es) of length zero.

di2multi deletes all branches smaller than tol and collapses the corresponding dichotomies into a multichotomy.

Examples

data(bird.families)
is.binary.tree(bird.families)
is.binary.tree(multi2di(bird.families))
all.equal(di2multi(multi2di(bird.families)), bird.families)
### To see the results of randomly resolving a trichotomy:
tr <- read.tree(text = "(a:1,b:1,c:1);")
layout(matrix(1:4, 2, 2))
for (i in 1:4)
  plot(multi2di(tr), use.edge.length = FALSE, cex = 1.5)
layout(matrix(1))