TreeTools (version 0.1.3)

AncestorEdge: Ancestral edge

Description

Ancestral edge

Usage

AncestorEdge(edge, parent, child)

Arguments

edge

Number of an edge

parent

the first column of the edge matrix of a tree of class phylo, i.e. tree$edge[, 1].

child

the second column of the edge matrix of a tree of class phylo, i.e. tree$edge[, 2].

Value

AncestorEdge returns a logical vector identifying whether each edge is the immediate ancestor of the given edge.

See Also

Other tree navigation: AllAncestors, DescendantEdges, EdgeAncestry, EdgeDistances, MRCA, NonDuplicateRoot

Examples

# NOT RUN {
tree <- BalancedTree(6)
parent <- tree$edge[, 1]
child <- tree$edge[, 2]
plot(tree)
ape::edgelabels()
AncestorEdge(5, parent, child)
which(AncestorEdge(5, parent, child))

# }