Primarily an internal function for posterior.evolrate
, this function splits the tree at a given point, and returns the two subtrees as an object of class "multiPhylo"
.
splitTree(tree, split)
phylogenetic tree.
split encoded as a list with two elements: node
: the node number tipward of the split; and bp
: the position along the branch to break the tree, measured from the rootward end of the edge.
Two trees in a list.
Probably do not use this unless you can figure out what you are doing.
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.