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phytools (version 1.5-1)

splitEdgeColor: Split edge colors when descendant edges have different mapped states

Description

Splits the vertical linking-line color on a plotted tree to match the daughter edges.

Usage

splitEdgeColor(tree,colors,lwd=2)

Arguments

tree

object of class "simmap".

colors

named vector of colors to be used for plotting.

lwd

width of the plotted lines.

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

This function splits the vertical line colors to match the daughter edges when the daughters have different states. Mostly to be used with trees generated using paintBranches or paintSubTree. Also used internally by plotSimmap.

References

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

See Also

plotSimmap