A phylogeny of all the species of a `roleData`
rolePhylo.RdAn S4 class to specify a phylogeny for the purpose of the RoLE model
Slots
nthe number of tips in the phylogeny
ethe numeric edge matrix of the phylogeny Each row contains an ancestor-child pair where the 1st column is the ancestor and the 2nd is the child
la numeric vector of edge lengths The units of l are the time steps (iterations) of the model Each time step unit is equal to 1/J generations where J is the number of individuals in the local community
alivea logical vector indicating whether each tips is extant or not
tipNamesa character vector of the names of each tip
scalea single numeric value of time scale translation to years