Function creates an interactive visualization of collapsing & expanding clades on the tree.
Usage
collapseTree(tree, ...)
Value
Returns the final plotted tree.
Arguments
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.
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.
References
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.