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-phylo@r-project.org/