This function takes the given file, containing data in either NEXUS or Newick format, and returns annotated phylogenetic trees.
read_annotated(filename, format="nexus")
a file to read tree data from
a format specifier; either "nexus"
or "newick"
an object of type "phylo"
or "multiPhylo"
, augmented with
node annotations.
The given file text is parsed and a tree object is constructed which can be used with the functions in the ape package. Annotations of the kind produced by, for example, MrBayes, are parsed and preserved in the returned object.
See parse_annotated
for more information about the
structure of the returned value.