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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 element
tip.label
of the argument
phy
) as colnames and rownames.
See Also
read.tree
to read tree files in Newick format