ape (version 0.1)

dist.phylo: Pairwise Distances from a Phylogenetic Tree

Description

This function computes the pairwise distances between the pairs of tips from a phylogenetic tree using the branch lengths of the latter.

Usage

dist.phylo(phy)

Arguments

phy
an object of class "phylo".

Value

  • a numeric matrix with the names of the tips (as given by the tip.label of the argument `phy') as colnames and rownames.

See Also

read.tree to read tree files in Newick format