unique.multiPhylo {ape} | R Documentation

## Revomes Duplicate Trees

### Description

This function scans a list of trees, and returns a list with the duplicate trees removed. By default the labelled topologies are compared.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'multiPhylo'
    unique(x, incomparables = FALSE,
            use.edge.length = FALSE,
            use.tip.label = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | an object of class `"multiPhylo"`.
`incomparables` | unused (for compatibility with the generic).
`use.edge.length` | a logical specifying whether to consider the edge lengths in the comparisons; the default is `FALSE`.
`use.tip.label` | a logical specifying whether to consider the tip labels in the comparisons; the default is `TRUE`.
`...` | further arguments passed to or from other methods.

### Value

an object of class `"multiPhylo"` with an attribute `"old.index"` indicating which trees of the original list are similar (the tree of smaller index is taken as reference).

### Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

### See Also

`all.equal.phylo`, `unique` for the generic R function, `read.tree`, `read.nexus`

### Examples

    TR <- rmtree(50, 4)
    length(unique(TR)) # not always 15...
    howmanytrees(4)

[Package ape version 4.1 Index]