galgo (version 1.4)

mutate.Niche: Mutates a niche calling mutate method for all chromosomes

Description

Mutates a niche calling mutate method for all chromosomes.

Usage

# S3 method for Niche
mutate(ni, n=(ni$mutationsFunc)(ni), ...)

Arguments

n

Number of chromosomes to mutate. The default is the result of calling mutationsFunc.

Value

This methods returns the chromosome indexes mutated.

Details

This method update the gene values for random chromsomes. The number of chromosomes to mutate is normally obtained calling mutationFunc.

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 Niche. mutate.Chromosome(), mutate.Gene().

Examples

# NOT RUN {
   cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=100),5))
   cr
   ni <- Niche(chromosomes = newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
   ni
   mutate(ni, 3)
   ni
 
# }