That all sounds great as gravy to me, Emmanuel. Thanks for clarifying
the help file.
-Cave
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Emmanuel Paradis
emmanuel.para...@ird.fr wrote:
Hi David,
You are right about this help page which is not so accurrate. I have
modified it with:
The test differs
Liam and to those who responded privately,
Yes, I understand that's the general reasoning for why ape refers to
trees with a polytomous root as 'unrooted'.
But if a tree with a basal trichotomy is an acceptable binary tree,
this doesn't jive with the help description for is.binary.tree in ape.
Hi Emmanuel and the rest of the list,
In some code, I use the ape function is.binary.tree to test if a
phylogeny is fully dichotomous. However, some recent analyses have
made me wonder if this wasn't the right choice. I'm not sure if the
following is a bug report me or me not understand the
Hi David.
In an unrooted, fully dichotomous tree each internal node is attached to
three exactly three nodes (some of which are tips). (In a rooted
binary tree one additional internal node exists, the root, which is
attached to only two nodes.) Ancestor descendant have no meaning until
the
