The function getExtant
takes a tree as input and returns a vector containing the names of all the tips that have a height above the root that is equal (to a degree of numerical precision determined by tol
) to the height of the highest tip.
getExtinct
returns the complement.
getExtant(tree, tol=1e-8)
getExtinct(tree, tol=1e-8)
a phylogeny stored as an object of class "phylo"
with some tips that are non-contemporaneous (i.e., end before the present).
a tolerance value to account for numerical imprecision.
A vector with the tip names of extant or extinct species in the tree.
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.