Hi,
To get a tree with a basal multichotomy as a rooted tree, you have to
set its root edge:
R> tr <- read.tree(text = "(A,B,(C,D));")
R> is.rooted(tr)
[1] FALSE
R> tr$root.edge <- 0
R> is.rooted(tr)
[1] TRUE
This could be done directly in the Newick string:
R> tr <- read.tree(text = "(A,B,(C,D)):0;")
R> is.rooted(tr)
[1] TRUE
Best,
Emmanuel
Le 19/01/2018 à 23:08, Yan Wong a écrit :
Hi
I have a set of rooted trees, some of which have polytomies at the root, like
(A,B,(C,D));
((A,B),(C,D));
These are not treated as rooted by default, so I have tried to root them using
root(tree, node = Ntip(phy) + 1, resolve.root = TRUE), but this gives an error,
explained here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/msg03805.html
Note that in my case there is no particular reason to specify either A, B, or
(C,D) as an outgroup
I should explain that what I am trying to do is to calculate distance metrics
between these trees (using metrics that are valid with polytomies, such as the
KC metric), such that the pairwise distances between (A,B,(C,D)) and
(B,A,(C,D)) and ((C,D), B, A) etc are all 0, but the distance between, say,
(A,B,(C,D)) and ((A,B),(C,D)) or perhaps (A,C,(B,D)); is not zero.
So how can I specify a polytomy at the root, with the tree format used in R?
Cheers
Yan Wong
Oxford
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