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Convert a "phylo" object to a dendrogram.

Source: R/asdendrogram.R
as.dendrogram.phylo.Rd

This function converts a "phylo" object (Paradis et al 2004) to a dendrogram.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'phylo'
as.dendrogram(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class "phylo".

...

further arguments to be passed between methods.

Value

an object of class "dendrogram".

References

Paradis E, Claude J, Strimmer K, (2004) APE: analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R language. Bioinformatics 20, 289-290.

Paradis E (2008) Definition of Formats for Coding Phylogenetic Trees in R. http://ape-package.ird.fr/misc/FormatTreeR_24Oct2012.pdf

Paradis E (2012) Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R (Second Edition). Springer, New York.

Author

Shaun Wilkinson

Examples

  newick <- "(A:0.1,B:0.2,(C:0.3,D:0.4):0.5);"
  x <- read.dendrogram(text = newick)
  y <- as.phylo(x)
  z <- as.dendrogram(y)
  identical(x, z)
#> [1] FALSE