This function takes a phylogenetic tree and a list of splits and identifies the split with the smallest summed or summed squared distances to all the other splits.
minSplit(tree, split.list, method="sum", printD=FALSE)A list with the following components:
node for the minimum split.
location on the branch leading to node of the minimum split.
an object of class "phylo".
either a matrix with two named columns, "node" and "bp"; a $mcmc matrix from evol.rate.mcmc(); or the entire raw output from evol.rate.mcmc().
an optional string indicating the criterion to minimize: options are "sum" and "sumsq".
logical specifying whether to print distances to screen (FALSE by default).
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.
Revell, L. J., D. L. Mahler, P. Peres-Neto, and B. D. Redelings (2012) A new method for identifying exceptional phenotypic diversification. Evolution, 66, 135-146.
evol.rate.mcmc, posterior.evolrate