[Phylobase-devl] node retrieval

[Thibaut Jombart]

Ben Bolker wrote:
>   How about:
>
>  getnode(phy,x)  which returns a named vector of node numbers;
> if x is an integer, it matches by number, while if x is
> a character, it matches by name?
>
>   ?
>  
That seems good to me. BTW, what do we intend by 'node'? In a phylo4 
object, we use 'node' for internal nodes. But printing a phylo4 object, 
'node' refers to any taxonomical unit. This may be annoying since users 
can be using both.

Cheers,

Thibaut.