Computes phylogenetic covariance matrices from a "simmap" object.
multiC(tree, internal=FALSE)A list of matrices.
an object of class "simmap" consisting of a phylogeny with a mapped discrete character.
logical value indicating whether or not internal nodes should be returned.
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
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.
Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.
evolvcv.lite, read.simmap, vcvPhylo, vcv.phylo