Clones itself and its chromosomes

Description

Clones itself and its chromosomes. Objects in S3 and this package are passed by reference and any ``pointer'' to it will affect the original object. You must clone an object in order to conserve the original values.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Niche':
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 Niche., Object

Examples

  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
  ni <- Niche(chromosomes=newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
  ni
  ni2 <- ni
  generateRandom(ni2)
  ni2
  ni                    # ni and ni2 are the very same object
  ni3 <- clone(ni2)
  generateRandom(ni3)
  ni3
  ni2                   # now ni2 is different to ni3
  ni                    # but ni2 is still the same than ni