collapse cell states to strings

Converts a long format states dataframe into 1 row per cell with all states converted to a letter string.

Usage

cell_states_to_strings(
  states_df,
  states_col = "state",
  cell_id_col = "cell_id"
)

Arguments

states_df

a dataframe with states for each bin for cells (or whatever the tree tips are)

states_col

name of the column with state values

cell_id_col

name of the column with the cell ids (tree tip names)