R: Get a Rooted Tree Height

get.rooted.tree.height {phyclust} | R Documentation

## Get a Rooted Tree Height

### Description

This function gets a rooted tree height, and only meaningful for a ultrametric tree which has the equal height from the root to all leaves.

### Usage

    get.rooted.tree.height(rooted.tree,
        tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5)

### Arguments

`rooted.tree` | a rooted tree in `Class phylo`.
`tol` | for `is.ultrametric` of ape.

### Details

The `rooted.tree` should be in a `phylo` class of ape, and should be ultrametric that may be created by `ms`.

### Value

Return the rooted tree height.

### Author(s)

Wei-Chen Chen wccsnow@gmail.com

### References

Phylogenetic Clustering Website: https://snoweye.github.io/phyclust/

### See Also

`ms`, `read.tree`, `as.phylo`, `is.ultrametric`, `rescale.rooted.tree`.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    library(phyclust, quiet = TRUE)

    set.seed(1234)
    ret.ms <- ms(5, 1, opts = paste("-T", sep = " "))
    tree.ms <- read.tree(text = ret.ms[3])
    is.ultrametric(tree.ms)
    get.rooted.tree.height(tree.ms)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package phyclust version 0.1-30 Index]