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phytools (version 0.5-64)

treeSlice: Slices the tree at a particular point and returns all subtrees

Description

This function slices a tree at a particular height above the root and returns all subtrees or all non-trivial subtrees (i.e., subtrees with more than 1 taxon). Uses extract.clade in the "ape" package.

Usage

treeSlice(tree, slice, trivial=FALSE, prompt=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

tree
is a phylogenetic tree in "phylo" format.
slice
a real number indicating the height above the root at which to slice the tree.
trivial
a logical value indicating whether or not to return subtrees with a number of tips less than two (default is FALSE).
prompt
logical value indicating whether or not the height of the slice should be given interactively.
...
for prompt=TRUE, other arguments to be passed to plotTree.

Value

An object of class "phylo" or "multiPhylo".

References

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

See Also

extract.clade