Generates a random value from the defined function

Description

Generates a random value from the defined function. The function used is stored in generateFunc value. The proper way to use this function is calling *mutate() method instead.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Gene':
generateRandom(.O, n=1, ...)

Arguments

Value

Returns random values.

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 Gene. *mutate().

Examples

   ge <- Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000)
   ge
   generateRandom(ge)
   generateRandom(ge)
   generateRandom(ge)

   # generation that depends on initial random selection ==> "is it silly?"
   ge$generateFunc = function(g, n=1, sh1, sh2) {
      if (is.null(g$value)) {
          g$value <- runif(n, sh1, sh2)
          g$value
      } else {
          g$value + runif(n, min=-10, max=10)
      }
   }
 
   generateRandom(ge)
   generateRandom(ge)
   generateRandom(ge)