Package: closesamples 1.0

closesamples: Gets feasible taxon samples on a tree

Often you want to pick species at random, but don't have access to all the possible species, and your group might be a nonrandom set. However, you might have a taxonomy, perhaps a bad one, for all the species. This will let you pick species at random on that full taxonomy and then pick a species out of the possible set closest to this. You could still have a biased sample, but way less biased.

Authors:Brian C. O'Meara