Hi Karla,
I cannot answer to your question on comparing trees with different sets
of labels, but surely dist.topo() should return an error in this
situation. I modified the code to handle this -- it is also much faster
(~ 100 times faster when comparing 100 trees with 100 tips).
And yes, you are right: from the definition of the RF distance in
?RF.dist and the one for the PH distance in ?dist.topo, they are the same.
Best,
Emmanuel
Le 20/11/2016 à 18:07, Karla Shikev a écrit :
Here's another question.
I'm looking for ways to compute distances between two trees when there are
differences in the sets of tip labels.
Based on some preliminary tests using simulated trees, phangorn's RF.dist
gives me exactly the same results as ape's dist.topo (which makes me wonder
if Penny and Hendy (1985)'s topological distance and the Robinson-Foulds
distance are equivalent). But, if there is one tip missing from one of the
trees, dist.topo gives me a distance anyway, but RF.dist gives me an error
message:
tr1<-pbtree(n=30)
tr2<-pbtree(n=29)
dist.topo(tr1, tr2)
[1] 51
RF.dist(tr1, tr2)
Error in RF.dist(tr1, tr2) : trees have different labels
However, this distance does not seem reasonable to me. For instance, if I
take the same tree and drop different tips, I get:
tr<-pbtree(n=10)
tr1<-drop.tip(tr, "t1")
tr2<-drop.tip(tr, "t2")
dist.topo(tr1, tr2)
[1] 4
RF.dist(tr1, tr2)
Error in RF.dist(tr1, tr2) : trees have different labels
Sometimes dist.topo gives me a distance of 2, other times I get 4,
depending on the simulated tree, yet both trees are completely consistent
with one another. Is there a metric that would circumvent this issue?
Thanks again,
Karla
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