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phytools (version 0.7-20)

mergeMappedStates: Merge two or more mapped states into one state

Description

This function merges two or mapped states on the tree to get one new state.

For instance, one could merge the states "C", "G", and "T" and define the new the state "not-A".

Usage

mergeMappedStates(tree, old.states, new.state)

Arguments

tree

an object of class "simmap" or "multiSimmap" containing one or more phylogenetic trees with a mapped discrete character.

old.states

states to merge.

new.state

name for new state.

Value

An object of class "simmap" or "multiSimmap".

References

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

See Also

make.simmap, read.simmap