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phytools (version 2.1-1)

getExtant: Returns a list of the extant or extinct lineages in a tree containing non-contemporaneous tips

Description

Computes the set of extant or extinct tips from a phylogenetic tree.

Usage

getExtant(tree, tol=1e-8)
getExtinct(tree, tol=1e-8)

Value

A vector with the tip names of extant or extinct species in the tree.

Arguments

tree

a phylogeny stored as an object of class "phylo" with some tips that are non-contemporaneous (i.e., end before the present).

tol

a tolerance value to account for numerical imprecision.

Author

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

Details

The function getExtant takes a tree as input and returns a vector containing the names of all the tips that have a height above the root that is equal (to a degree of numerical precision determined by tol) to the height of the highest tip. These tips are presumed to be "extant."

getExtinct returns the complement.

References

Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.

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