phylobase (version 0.8.2)

ancestor: Tree traversal and utility functions

Description

Functions for describing relationships among phylogenetic nodes (i.e. internal nodes or tips).

Usage

ancestor(phy, node)
children(phy, node)
descendants(phy, node, type = c("tips", "children", "all", "ALL"))
siblings(phy, node, include.self = FALSE)
ancestors(phy, node, type = c("all", "parent", "ALL"))

Arguments

phy

a phylo4 object (or one inheriting from phylo4, e.g. a phylo4d object)

node

either an integer corresponding to a node ID number, or a character corresponding to a node label; for ancestors and descendants, this may be a vector of multiple node numbers or names

type

(ancestors) specify whether to return just direct ancestor ("parent"), all ancestor nodes ("all"), or all ancestor nodes including self ("ALL"); (descendants) specify whether to return just direct descendants ("children"), all extant descendants ("tips"), or all descendant nodes ("all") or all descendant nodes including self ("ALL").

include.self

whether to include self in list of siblings

...

a list of node numbers or names, or a vector of node numbers or names

Value

ancestors

return a named vector (or a list of such vectors in the case of multiple input nodes) of the ancestors and descendants of a node

descendants

return a named vector (or a list of such vectors in the case of multiple input nodes) of the ancestors and descendants of a node

ancestor

ancestor is analogous to ancestors(...{}, type="parent") (i.e. direct ancestor only), but returns a single concatenated vector in the case of multiple input nodes

children

is analogous to descendants(...{}, type="children") (i.e. direct descendants only), but is not currently intended to be used with multiple input nodes

siblings

returns sibling nodes (children of the same parent)

Details

ancestors and descendants can take node vectors of arbitrary length, returning a list of output vectors if the number of valid input nodes is greater than one. List element names are taken directly from the input node vector.

If any supplied nodes are not found in the tree, the behavior currently varies across functions.

• Invalid nodes are automatically omitted by ancestors and descendants, with a warning.

ancestor will return NA for any invalid nodes, with a warning.

Both children and siblings will return an empty vector, again with a warning.

See Also

mrca, in the ape package, gives a list of all subtrees

Examples

  data(geospiza)
  nodeLabels(geospiza) <- LETTERS[1:nNodes(geospiza)]
  plot(as(geospiza, "phylo4"), show.node.label=TRUE)
  ancestor(geospiza, "E")
  children(geospiza, "C")
  descendants(geospiza, "D", type="tips")
  descendants(geospiza, "D", type="all")
  ancestors(geospiza, "D")
  MRCA(geospiza, "conirostris", "difficilis", "fuliginosa")
  MRCA(geospiza, "olivacea", "conirostris")

  ## shortest path between 2 nodes
  shortestPath(geospiza, "fortis", "fuliginosa")
  shortestPath(geospiza, "F", "L")

  ## branch length from a tip to the root
  sumEdgeLength(geospiza, ancestors(geospiza, "fortis", type="ALL"))