Hi Branchlizard and list, in order to do this you would first need to rename one of the foo's in each clade (I would always rename the first one) as '6 foo's', '4 foo's', etc. Then you can apply drop.tip on all the foos, as you did before.
I hope this helps. Cheers, Florian 2016-09-14 21:32 GMT+02:00 branchlizard . <branch.liz...@gmail.com>: > I would like to turn this > > http://i.imgur.com/chLdFmZ.jpg > > into this > > http://i.imgur.com/vSoe6mu.jpg > > > My dataset and phylogeny is much more complex than this, but this is the > basic idea. > > > BL > > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Liam J. Revell <liam.rev...@umb.edu> > wrote: > > > I'm sure this is possible, but I really don't understand the question. > > Maybe you could draw what you have in mind on a piece of paper and post a > > picture of the paper.... > > > > All the best, Liam > > > > Liam J. Revell, Associate Professor of Biology > > University of Massachusetts Boston > > web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/ > > email: liam.rev...@umb.edu > > blog: http://blog.phytools.org > > > > > > On 9/12/2016 2:46 PM, branchlizard . wrote: > > > >> I have posted this question at Stack Overflow. I hope this doesn't > violate > >> any community rules about double posting. > >> > >> I probably could have worded the title better, but I am wanting to > >> collapse > >> any clade within a phylogenetic tree (even if the clade has one member) > >> which has a tip label of "foo" and then count the number of tips which > >> were > >> dropped from that specific clade and create a branch with a tip label > >> displaying 35 foos. > >> > >> The counting portion is easy; however, when I use > >> > >> drop.tip(rooted.tree,tip=which(rooted.tree$tip.label=='foo') > >> ,subtree=TRUE) > >> > >> the dropped tips do not maintain their position in the tree. Rather, > they > >> are all grouped at the end (counted properly however). Is there anyway > to > >> collapse a clade by tip labels and maintain its position > >> > >> > >> > >> BranchLizard > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > >> Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r- > >> sig-ph...@r-project.org/ > >> > >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r- > sig-ph...@r-project.org/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
