Clones itself and its genes

Description

Clones itself and its genes. Objects in S3 and this package are passed by reference and any ``pointer'' to it will affect the original object. Therefore, you must clone an object first in order to preserve the original values.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Chromosome':
clone(.O, ...)

Value

Returns a new cloned object.

Author(s)

Victor Trevino. Francesco Falciani Group. University of Birmingham, U.K. http://www.bip.bham.ac.uk/bioinf

References

Goldberg, David E. 1989 Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201157675

See Also

For more information see Chromosome. Object

Examples

  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
  cr
  cr2 <- cr
  generateRandom(cr2)
  cr2
  cr                    # cr and cr2 are the very same object
  cr3 <- clone(cr2)
  generateRandom(cr3)
  cr3
  cr2                   # now cr2 is different to cr3
  cr                    # but cr2 is still the same than cr