galgo (version 1.4)

clone.Chromosome: Clones itself and its genes

Description

Clones itself and its genes. Objects in S3 and this package are passed by reference and any ``pointer'' to it will affect the original object. Therefore, you must clone an object first in order to preserve the original values.

Usage

# S3 method for Chromosome
clone(.O, ...)

Value

Returns a new cloned object.

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 Chromosome. Object

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=100),5))
  cr
  cr2 <- cr
  generateRandom(cr2)
  cr2
  cr			# cr and cr2 are the very same object
  cr3 <- clone(cr2)
  generateRandom(cr3)
  cr3
  cr2			# now cr2 is different to cr3
  cr			# but cr2 is still the same than cr
# }