summary.phylo {ape}R Documentation

Print Summary of a Phylogeny

Description

This function prints a compact summary of a phylogenetic tree (an object of class "phylo").

Usage

## S3 method for class 'phylo':
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object an object of class "phylo".
... further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

The summary includes the numbers of tips and of nodes, summary statistics of the branch lengths (if they are available) with mean, variance, minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum, listing of the first ten tip labels, and (if available) of the first ten node labels. It is also printed whether some of these optional elements (branch lengths, node labels, and root edge) are not found in the tree.

This function simply prints its results on the standard output and is not meant for programming.

Value

A NULL value is returned, the results are simply printed.

Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis paradis@isem.univ-montp2.fr

See Also

read.tree, summary for the generic R function

Examples

data(bird.families)
summary(bird.families)

[Package ape version 1.7 Index]