R: Pairwise Distances from a Phylogenetic Tree

dist.phylo {ape}

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Pairwise Distances from a Phylogenetic Tree

This function computes the pairwise distances between the pairs of tips from a phylogenetic tree using the branch lengths of the latter.

dist.phylo(phy)

phy an object of class "phylo".

a numeric matrix with the names of the tips (as given by the element tip.label of the argument phy) as colnames and rownames.