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Tip revision: 88b62374d892f92ecd45527da6fe3aefd5eb8f3e authored by Emmanuel Paradis on 20 September 2002, 00:00:00 UTC
version 0.2
version 0.2
Tip revision: 88b6237
branching.times.Rd
\name{branching.times}
\alias{branching.times}
\title{Branching Times of a Phylogenetic Tree}
\usage{
branching.times(phy)
}
\arguments{
\item{phy}{an object of class \code{"phylo"}.}
}
\description{
This function computes the branching times of a phylogenetic tree,
that is the distance from each node to the tips, under the assumption that
the tree is ultrametric. Note that the function does not check that the
tree is effectively ultrametric, so if it is not, the returned result
may not be meaningful.
}
\value{
a numeric vector with the branching times. If the phylogeny \code{phy}
has an element \code{node.label}, this is used as names for the
returned vector; otherwise the numbers (of mode character) of the
matrix \code{edge} of \code{phy} are used as names.
}
\author{Emmanuel Paradis \email{paradis@isem.univ-montp2.fr}}
\keyword{manip}