phylobase (version 0.8.2)

shortestPath: shortestPath-methods

Description

Finds the shortest path between two nodes in a tree

Usage

shortestPath(x, node1, node2)
"shortestPath"(x, node1, node2)
"shortestPath"(x, node1, node2)

Arguments

x

a tree in the phylo4, phylo4d or phylo format

node1

a numeric or character (passed to getNode) indicating the beginning from which the path should be calculated.

node2

a numeric or character (passed to getNode) indicating the end of the path.

Value

a vector of nodes indcating the shortest path between 2 nodes

Details

Given two nodes (i.e, tips or internal nodes), this function returns the shortest path between them (excluding node1 and node2 as a vector of nodes.

See Also

getNode