Generates a list of cloned objects

Description

Generates a list of cloned Gene Objects.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Gene':
newCollection(.O, ...)

Arguments

Value

Returns a list with cloned objects. The names are build using class name and a consecutive number.

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. *unObject(), *as.list(), *newRandomCollection(), Chromosome.

Examples

   ge <- Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000)
   ge
   print(ge)
   # list of five new identical Gene objects (different id)
   newCollection(ge, 5)                
   # list of two new identical Gene objects converted to a list using unObject
   unObject(newCollection(ge,2))       
 
   # building chromosome from gene clones
   # (perhaps for variable selection in microarray data)
   cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(ge, 5))
   cr