Rev Language Reference
readTrees - Function to read in trees.
Reads trees from a file containing trees (Nexus, Phylip or Newick accepted), or from a string containing Newick representations of trees.
Usage
Arguments
| file : | String (pass by value) |
| The name of the file containing the trees. | |
| text : | String (pass by value) |
| A string containing one or several newick trees, separated by end of lines. | |
| treetype : | String (pass by value) |
| The type of trees. | |
| Default : clock | |
| Options : clock|non-clock | |
| unroot_nonclock : | Bool (pass by value) |
| Remove a degree-2 root node and set the tree unrooted, if treetype is non-clock. | |
| Default : TRUE |
Return Type
Details
Either a file name (with the file argument) or a string (with the text argument) must be provided as argument. If both are provided, trees will be read from both sources.
Example
trees=readTrees(text="(a,(b,c));\n(d:0.1,(e:0.1,f:0.1):0.1);")
print(trees)
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