This function reads a Newick style tree from file.
Usage
read.newick(file="", text)
Arguments
file
name of text file with single Newick style tree or multiple trees, one per line.
text
character string containing tree.
Value
An object of class "phylo", possibly containing singles (see collapse.singles).
Details
This function is almost completely redundant with read.tree; however it is 'robust' in that it does not fail if the tree contains so-called 'singles' (nodes with only one descendant).