[Phylobase-devl] path between two tips

[Thibaut Jombart]

Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> Yep pretty much what I would have said. If there isn't already, why 
> not just have a shortestPath method that takes any two nodes?
My bad. The algorithm is the same, but I just needed it for two tips. Ok 
for 'shortestPath'.
> BTW another thought, as trees are graphs, it's also a possibility to 
> have an easy conversion to a graph data structure and then have all 
> the methods at hand supported on that data structure. For example, 
> there is the graph package on CRAN:
>
> http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/web/packages/graph/index.html
>
> and a whole variety of algorithms on that data structure in the RBGL 
> package:
>
> http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/web/packages/RBGL/index.html
>
> including several for shortest path.
>
Yes, but maybe that would be overkill. I mean, calling from a graph 
package would be more powerful, but I have no idea how many of these 
newly accessible tools would be useful for phylogeny.

Best,

Thibaut.