phylobase (version 0.8.12)

checkPhylo4: Validity checking for phylo4 objects

Description

Basic checks on the validity of S4 phylogenetic objects

Usage

checkPhylo4(object)

Value

As required by validObject, returns an error string (describing problems) or TRUE if everything is OK.

Arguments

object

A prospective phylo4 or phylo4d object

Author

Ben Bolker, Steven Kembel, Francois Michonneau

See Also

the phylo4 constructor and phylo4 class; the phylo4d-methods constructor and the phylo4d class do checks for the data associated with trees. See coerce-methods for translation functions and phylobase.options to change some of the default options of the validator.