ape (version 0.1)

plot.phylo: Plot Phylogenies

Description

This plots a phylogenetic tree on the current graphical device.

Usage

plot.phylo(x, ...)

Arguments

x

an object of class "phylo".

...

further arguments to be passed to plot().

See Also

plot for the basic plotting function in R, read.tree

Examples

### An extract from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990)
cat("(((Strix aluco:4.2,Asio otus:4.2):3.1,",
   "Athene noctua:7.3):6.3,Tyto alba:13.5);",
   file = "ex.tre", sep = "")
tree.owls <- read.tree("ex.tre")
plot(tree.owls)
unlink("ex.tre") # delete the file "ex.tre"