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rphast (version 1.6.9)

depth.tree: Get the distance from a node to the root of a tree

Description

Get the distance from a node to the root of a tree

Usage

depth.tree(tree, node)

Arguments

tree

A vector of character strings, each containing a newick tree

node

A vector of character strings, giving the node name to use for each tree. Will be recycled to the length of the first argument.

Value

A numeric vector containing the distance from each given node to the root of the corresponding tree.