Gets the number of chromosomes defined in the niche

Description

Gets the number of chromosomes defined in the niche.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Niche':
length(x, ...)

Value

A numeric value representing the number of chromosomes in the niche.

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. *length().

Examples

  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
  ni <- Niche(chromosomes=newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
  ni
  length(ni)