phyloTop (version 2.1.2)

maxHeight: Maximum tree height

Description

Find the maximum height of tips in the tree.

Usage

maxHeight(tree, normalise = FALSE)

Value

An integer giving the maximum height of tips in the tree.

Arguments

tree

a tree of class phylo or phylo4. The tree should be binary and rooted; if not it will be coerced into a binary rooted tree using multi2di, if possible.

normalise

option to normalise the result, default is FALSE.

Author

Michelle Kendall

Caroline Colijn

Examples

## Maximum height of tips in a random tree with 10 tips:
tree <- rtree(10)
plot(tree)
maxHeight(tree) 
maxHeight(tree, normalise=TRUE)