treedist: Distances between trees
Description
treedist computes different tree distance methods and RF.dist the Robinson-Foulds distance.Usage
treedist(tree1, tree2)
RF.dist(tree1, tree2, check.labels=TRUE)
Arguments
tree1
A phylogenetic tree.
tree2
A phylogenetic tree.
check.labels
compares labels of the trees.
Value
treedist returns a vector containing the following tree distance methods- symmetric.differencesymmetric.difference or Robinson-Foulds distance
- branch.score.differencebranch.score.difference
- path.differencepath.difference
- weighted.path.differenceweighted.path.difference
References
Steel M. A. and Penny P. (1993) Distributions of tree comparison metrics - some new results, Syst. Biol.,42(2), 126-141