Generates a list cloning an object

Description

Generates a list cloning an object. It only use the generic newCollection method.

Usage

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

Arguments

Value

Returns a list with cloned objects. The names are build with the class 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 World. *unObject(), *as.list(), *newCollection(), *newRandomCollection().

Examples

  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
  ni <- Niche(chromosomes=newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
  ni$fitness <- runif(10)  ## tricky fitness
  ni
  wo <- World(niches=newRandomCollection(ni,2))
  newCollection(wo, 2)                  # list of two new identical World objects
  newRandomCollection(wo, 2)            # list of two new different World objects