R: UPGMA and WPGMA

upgma {phangorn} | R Documentation

## UPGMA and WPGMA

### Description

UPGMA and WPGMA clustering. Just a wrapper function around `hclust`.

### Usage

    upgma(D, method = "average", ...)

    wpgma(D, method = "mcquitty", ...)

### Arguments

`D` | A distance matrix.
`method` | The agglomeration method to be used. This should be (an unambiguous abbreviation of) one of "ward", "single", "complete", "average", "mcquitty", "median" or "centroid". The default is "average".
`...` | Further arguments passed to or from other methods.

### Value

A phylogenetic tree of class `phylo`.

### Author(s)

Klaus Schliep klaus.schliep@gmail.com

### See Also

`hclust`, `dist.hamming`, `NJ`, `as.phylo`, `fastme`, `nnls.tree`

### Examples

    data(Laurasiatherian)
    dm = dist.ml(Laurasiatherian)
    tree = upgma(dm)
    plot(tree)

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