'phy' is not rooted and fully dichotomous in R?

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Hi,

I am trying to do phylogenetic independent contrasts for my honours project however, when using the code

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If the only problem with your tree is that it is not fully bifurcating, you can use a function from the ape package, multi2di, to resolve it into a series of dichotomies.

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