Documentation for SLiM function setCloningRate, which is a method of the SLiM class Subpopulation. Note that the R function is a stub, it does not do anything in R (except bring up this documentation). It will only do anything useful when used inside a slim_block function further nested in a slim_script function call, where it will be translated into valid SLiM code as part of a full SLiM script.

setCloningRate(rate)

Arguments

rate

An object of type numeric. See details for description.

Value

An object of type void.

Details

Documentation for this function can be found in the official SLiM manual: page 744.

Set the cloning rate of this subpopulation. The rate is changed to rate, which should be between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive. Clonal reproduction can be enabled in both non-sexual (i.e. hermaphroditic) and sexual simulations. In non-sexual simulations, rate must be a singleton value representing the overall clonal reproduction rate for the subpopulation. In sexual simulations, rate may be either a singleton (specifying the clonal reproduction rate for both sexes) or a vector containing two numeric values (the female and male cloning rates specified separately, at indices 0 and 1 respectively). During mating and offspring generation, the probability that any given offspring individual will be generated by cloning - by asexual reproduction without gametes or meiosis - will be equal to the cloning rate (for its sex, in sexual simulations) set in the parental (not the offspring!) subpopulation.

Author

Benjamin C Haller (bhaller@benhaller.com) and Philipp W Messer (messer@cornell.edu)