galgo (version 1.4)

clone.World: Clones itself and its niches

Description

Clone itself and its niches. Objects in S3 and this package are passed by reference and any ``pointer'' to it will affect the original object. You must clone an object in order to conserve the original values.

Usage

# S3 method for World
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 World. Object

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=100),5))
  ni <- Niche(chromosomes=newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
  wo <- World(niches=newRandomCollection(ni,2))
  wo
  wo2 <- wo
  generateRandom(wo2)
  wo2
  wo			# wo and wo2 are the very same object
  wo3 <- clone(wo2)
  generateRandom(wo3)
  wo3
  wo2			# now wo2 is different to wo3
  wo			# but wo2 is still the same than wo
# }