I would like to turn this http://i.imgur.com/chLdFmZ.jpg
into this http://i.imgur.com/vSoe6mu.jpg My dataset and phylogeny is much more complex than this, but this is the basic idea. BL On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Liam J. Revell <liam.rev...@umb.edu> wrote: > I'm sure this is possible, but I really don't understand the question. > Maybe you could draw what you have in mind on a piece of paper and post a > picture of the paper.... > > All the best, Liam > > Liam J. Revell, Associate Professor of Biology > University of Massachusetts Boston > web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/ > email: liam.rev...@umb.edu > blog: http://blog.phytools.org > > > On 9/12/2016 2:46 PM, branchlizard . wrote: > >> I have posted this question at Stack Overflow. I hope this doesn't violate >> any community rules about double posting. >> >> I probably could have worded the title better, but I am wanting to >> collapse >> any clade within a phylogenetic tree (even if the clade has one member) >> which has a tip label of "foo" and then count the number of tips which >> were >> dropped from that specific clade and create a branch with a tip label >> displaying 35 foos. >> >> The counting portion is easy; however, when I use >> >> drop.tip(rooted.tree,tip=which(rooted.tree$tip.label=='foo') >> ,subtree=TRUE) >> >> the dropped tips do not maintain their position in the tree. Rather, they >> are all grouped at the end (counted properly however). Is there anyway to >> collapse a clade by tip labels and maintain its position >> >> >> >> BranchLizard >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo >> Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r- >> sig-ph...@r-project.org/ >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/