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is.ultrametric

Test if a Tree is Ultrametric


Description

This function tests whether a tree is ultrametric using the distances from each tip to the root.

Usage

is.ultrametric(phy, ...)
## S3 method for class 'phylo'
is.ultrametric(phy, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5, option = 1, ...)
## S3 method for class 'multiPhylo'
is.ultrametric(phy, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5, option = 1, ...)

Arguments

phy

an object of class "phylo" or "multiPhylo".

tol

a numeric >= 0, variation below this value are considered non-significant.

option

an integer (1 or 2; see details).

...

arguments passed among methods.

Details

The test is based on the distances from each tip to the root and a criterion: if option = 1, the criterion is the scaled range ((max - min/max)), if option = 2, the variance is used (this was the method used until ape 3.5). The default criterion is invariant to linear changes of the branch lengths.

Value

a logical vector.

Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

See Also

Examples

is.ultrametric(rtree(10))
is.ultrametric(rcoal(10))

ape

Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

v5.5
GPL-2 | GPL-3
Authors
Emmanuel Paradis [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-2199>), Simon Blomberg [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1062-0839>), Ben Bolker [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2127-0443>), Joseph Brown [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3835-8062>), Santiago Claramunt [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8926-5974>), Julien Claude [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9267-1228>), Hoa Sien Cuong [aut, cph], Richard Desper [aut, cph], Gilles Didier [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0596-9112>), Benoit Durand [aut, cph], Julien Dutheil [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7753-4121>), RJ Ewing [aut, cph], Olivier Gascuel [aut, cph], Thomas Guillerme [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-1275>), Christoph Heibl [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-3299>), Anthony Ives [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-9523>), Bradley Jones [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4498-1069>), Franz Krah [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7866-7508>), Daniel Lawson [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5311-6213>), Vincent Lefort [aut, cph], Pierre Legendre [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3838-3305>), Jim Lemon [aut, cph], Guillaume Louvel [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7745-0785>), Eric Marcon [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5249-321X>), Rosemary McCloskey [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9772-8553>), Johan Nylander [aut, cph], Rainer Opgen-Rhein [aut, cph], Andrei-Alin Popescu [aut, cph], Manuela Royer-Carenzi [aut, cph], Klaus Schliep [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2941-0161>), Korbinian Strimmer [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7917-2056>), Damien de Vienne [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9532-5251>)
Initial release
2021-04-24

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