R: Makes Node Labels

makeNodeLabel {ape} | R Documentation

## Makes Node Labels

### Description

This function makes node labels in a tree in a flexible way.

### Usage

    makeNodeLabel(phy, method = "number", prefix = "Node", nodeList = list(), ...)

### Arguments

`phy` | an object of class `"phylo"`.
`method` | a character string giving the method used to create the labels. Three choices are possible: `"number"` (the default), `"md5sum"`, and `"user"`, or any unambiguous abbreviation of these.
`prefix` | the prefix used if `method = "number"`.
`nodeList` | a named list specifying how nodes are names if `method = "user"` (see details and examples).
`...` | further arguments passed to `grep`.

### Details

The three methods are described below:

- “number”The labels are created with 1, 2, ... prefixed with the argument `prefix`; thus the default is to have Node1, Node2, ... Set `prefix = ""` to have only numbers.

- “md5sum”For each node, the labels of the tips descendant from this node are extracted, sorted alphabetically, and written into a temporary file, then the md5sum of this file is extracted and used as label. This results in a 32-character string which is unique (even accross trees) for a given set of tip labels.

- “user”the argument `nodeList` must be a list with names, the latter will be used as node labels. For each element of `nodeList`, the tip labels of the tree are searched for patterns present in this element: this is done using `grep`. Then the most recent common ancestor of the matching tips is given the corresponding names as labels. This is repeated for each element of `nodeList`.

The method `"user"` can be used in combination with either of the two others (see examples). Note that this method only modifies the specified node labels (so that if the other nodes have already labels they are not modified) while the two others change all labels.

### Value

an object of class `"phylo"`.

### Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

### See Also

`makeLabel`, `grep`, `mixedFontLabel`, `label2table`, `checkLabel`

### Examples

    tr <-
    "((Pan_paniscus,Pan_troglodytes),((Homo_sapiens,Homo_erectus),Homo_abilis));"
    tr <- read.tree(text = tr)
    tr <- makeNodeLabel(tr, "u", nodeList = list(Pan = "Pan", Homo = "Homo"))
    plot(tr, show.node.label = TRUE)
    ### does not erase the previous node labels:
    tr <- makeNodeLabel(tr, "u", nodeList = list(Hominid = c("Pan","Homo")))
    plot(tr, show.node.label = TRUE)
    ### the two previous commands could be combined:
    L <- list(Pan = "Pan", Homo = "Homo", Hominid = c("Pan","Homo"))
    tr <- makeNodeLabel(tr, "u", nodeList = L)
    ### combining different methods:
    tr <- makeNodeLabel(tr, c("n", "u"), prefix = "#", nodeList = list(Hominid = c("Pan","Homo")))
    plot(tr, show.node.label = TRUE)

[Package ape version 5.6-2 Index]