Function creates an interactive visualization of collapsing & expanding clades on the tree.
collapseTree(tree, ...)
an object of class "phylo"
.
optional arguments. These mostly match the arguments of plotSimmap
, but also include the argument drop.extinct=TRUE
which will (if the input tree is ultrametric) drop any 'extinct' lineages from the tree that is returned by the function.
Returns the final plotted tree.
Function first plots a fan style tree, and then the user collapses node on the tree by clicking on them. Collapsed nodes are collapsed to the common ancestor of the clade. Nodes that have been collapsed can also be expanded by clicking. Right-click to end.
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.