R: Recode Blocks of Indels

DNAbin2indel {ape} | R Documentation

## Recode Blocks of Indels

### Description

This function scans a set of aligned DNA sequences and returns a matrix with information of the localisations and lengths on alignment gaps.

### Usage

    DNAbin2indel(x)

### Arguments

`x` | an object of class `"DNAbin"`.

### Details

The output matrix has the same dimensions than the input one with, either a numeric value where an alignment gap starts giving the length of the gap, or zero. The rownames are kept.

### Value

a numeric matrix.

### Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

### See Also

`DNAbin`, `as.DNAbin`, `del.gaps`, `seg.sites`, `image.DNAbin`, `checkAlignment`

[Package ape version 4.1 Index]