Computes the set of extant or extinct tips from a phylogenetic tree.
getExtant(tree, tol=1e-8)
getExtinct(tree, tol=1e-8)
A vector with the tip names of extant or extinct species in the tree.
a phylogeny stored as an object of class "phylo"
with some tips that are non-contemporaneous (i.e., end before the present).
a tolerance value to account for numerical imprecision.
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
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.
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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