phyclust (version 0.1-9)

get.rooted.tree.height: Get a rooted tree height

Description

This function gets a rooted tree height, and only meaningful for a ultrametric tree which has the equal height from the root to all leaves.

Usage

get.rooted.tree.height(rooted.tree,
    tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5)

Arguments

rooted.tree

a rooted tree in Class phylo.

tol

for is.ultrametric of ape.

Value

• Return the rooted tree height.

Details

The rooted.tree should be in a phylo class of ape, and should be ultrametric that may be created by ms.

References

Phylogenetic Clustering Website: http://thirteen-01.stat.iastate.edu/snoweye/phyclust/

See Also

ms, read.tree, as.phylo, is.ultrametric, rescale.rooted.tree.

Examples

set.seed(1234)
ret.ms <- ms(5, 1, opts = paste("-T", sep = " "))
tree.ms <- read.tree(text = ret.ms[3])
is.ultrametric(tree.ms)
get.rooted.tree.height(tree.ms)