Find the maximum height of tips in the tree.
maxHeight(tree, normalise = FALSE)
a tree of class phylo
or phylo4
. The tree should be binary and rooted; if not it will be coerced into a binary rooted tree using multi2di, if possible.
option to normalise the result, default is FALSE
.
An integer giving the maximum height of tips in the tree.
## Maximum height of tips in a random tree with 10 tips:
tree <- rtree(10)
plot(tree)
maxHeight(tree)
#> [1] 6
maxHeight(tree, normalise=TRUE)
#> [1] 0.6666667