R: Zoom on a Portion of a Phylogeny by Successive Clicks

subtreeplot {ape} | R Documentation

## Zoom on a Portion of a Phylogeny by Successive Clicks

### Description

This function plots simultaneously a whole phylogenetic tree (supposedly large) and a portion of it determined by clicking on the nodes of the phylogeny. On exit, returns the last subtree visualized.

### Usage

    subtreeplot(x, wait=FALSE, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | an object of class `"phylo"`.
`wait` | a logical indicating whether the node beeing processed should be printed (useful for big phylogenies).
`...` | further arguments passed to `plot.phylo`.

### Details

This function aims at easily exploring very large trees. The main argument is a phylogenetic tree, and the second one is a logical indicating whether a waiting message should be printed while the calculation is being processed.

The whole tree is plotted on the left-hand side in half of the device. The subtree is plotted on the right-hand side in the other half. The user clicks on the nodes in the complete tree and the subtree corresponding to this node is ploted in the right-hand side. There is no limit for the number of clicks that can be done. On exit, the subtree on the right hand side is returned.

To use a subtree as the new tree in which to zoom, the user has to use the function many times. This can however be done in a single command line (see example 2).

### Author(s)

Damien de Vienne damien.de-vienne@u-psud.fr

### See Also

`plot.phylo`, `drop.tip`, `subtrees`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    #example 1: simple
    tree1 <- rtree(50)
    tree2 <- subtreeplot(tree1, wait = TRUE) # on exit, tree2 will be a subtree of tree1

    #example 2: more than one zoom
    tree1 <- rtree(60)
    tree2 <- subtreeplot(subtreeplot(subtreeplot(tree1))) # allow three succssive zooms

    ## End(Not run)

[Package ape version 5.4 Index]