Generates a list of cloned objects and random values

Description

Creates a list of cloned objects with its internal values generated by random.

Usage

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

Arguments

Details

For all cloned objects, generateRandom method is called. This has no effect for common Gene objects since the generated value is not stored there. However, this mechanism works equally well when it is needed to store values in Gene.

Value

Returns a list with cloned objects and random generated 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. *unObject(), *as.list(), *newCollection(), Chromosome.

Examples

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