Learn R Programming

phytools (version 1.5-1)

multiC: Returns a list with phylogenetic VCV matrix for each mapped state

Description

Computes phylogenetic covariance matrices from a "simmap" object.

Usage

multiC(tree, internal=FALSE)

Value

A list of matrices.

Arguments

tree

an object of class "simmap" consisting of a phylogeny with a mapped discrete character.

internal

logical value indicating whether or not internal nodes should be returned.

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

This function takes a modified "phylo" object as input and returns a set of so-called phylogenetic covariance matrices (e.g., see vcv.phylo) as a list: one for each mapped state.

Used internally by multiple phytools functions, such as brownie.lite.

References

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

See Also

evolvcv.lite, read.simmap, vcvPhylo, vcv.phylo