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Primarily an internal function for make.simmap.
make.simmap
rstate(y)
vector of probabilities. Must have names & should probably add to 1.0.
1.0
A character or string.
This function picks a random element in a vector according to the probability assigned that element. It returns the name. Uses rmultinom.
rmultinom
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.