treescape (version 1.8.16)

refTreeDist: Metric function for comparing a reference phylo to multiPhylo input

Description

Comparison of a single reference tree to a list of trees using the Kendall Colijn metric. Output is given as a vector of distances from the reference tree.

Usage

refTreeDist(refTree, trees, lambda = 0, return.lambda.function = FALSE,
  emphasise.tips = NULL, emphasise.weight = 2)

Value

The vector of distances, where entry i corresponds to the distance between the i'th tree and the reference tree, or a function that produces the vector of distances given a value for lambda.

Examples

## generate a single reference tree with 6 tips
refTree <- rtree(6)

## generate 10 random trees, each with 6 tips
trees <- rmtree(10,6)

## find the distances from each of the 10 random trees to the single reference tree
refTreeDist(refTree,trees)