R: Consistency Index and Retention Index

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## Consistency Index and Retention Index

### Description

`CI` and `RI` compute the Consistency Index (CI) and Retention Index (RI).

### Usage

    CI(tree, data, cost = NULL, sitewise = FALSE)

    RI(tree, data, cost = NULL, sitewise = FALSE)

### Arguments

`tree` | tree to start the nni search from.
`data` | A object of class phyDat containing sequences.
`cost` | A cost matrix for the transitions between two states.
`sitewise` | return CI/RI for alignment or sitewise

### Details

The Consistency Index is defined as minimum number of changes divided by the number of changes required on the tree (parsimony score). The Consistency Index is equal to one if there is no homoplasy. And the Retention Index is defined as

RI = (MaxChanges - ObsChanges) / (MaxChanges - MinChanges)

### See Also

`parsimony`, `pratchet`, `fitch`, `sankoff`, `bab`, `ancestral.pars`

[Package phangorn version 2.3.1 Index]