Mutates a niche calling mutate method for all chromosomes

Description

Mutates a niche calling mutate method for all chromosomes.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Niche':
mutate(ni, n=(ni$mutationsFunc)(ni), ...)

Arguments

Details

This method update the gene values for random chromsomes. The number of chromosomes to mutate is normally obtained calling mutationFunc.

Value

This methods returns the chromosome indexes mutated.

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. mutate.Chromosome(), mutate.Gene().

Examples

   cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
   cr
   ni <- Niche(chromosomes = newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
   ni
   mutate(ni, 3)
   ni