ApeTime() reads the time that a tree written with "ape" was modified, based on the comment in the Nexus file.

ApeTime(filepath, format = "double")

Arguments

filepath

Character string specifying path to the file.

format

Format in which to return the time: "double" as a sortable numeric; any other value to return a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.

Value

ApeTime() returns the time that the specified file was created by ape, in the format specified by format.