Last data update: 2014.03.03

 R: Prune Phylogenies
prune.phylo.rankR Documentation

Prune Phylogenies

Description

Prune tips of a certain taxonomic rank from an object of class phylo and obtain a new phylo object whose tips are of a higher rank.

Usage

prune.phylo.rank(phy, tax, rank = "gen", add.nb = TRUE, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

phy

an object of class phylo.

tax

a data frame containing taxonomic information for the tip labels in phy.

rank

a character string giving the name of a column (= taxonomic rank) in tax to which phy will be pruned.

add.nb

logical

quiet

logical

Value

an object of class phylo.

Author(s)

Christoph Heibl

See Also

addTip to add terminal nodes to a phylogeny.

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