agent_manager: agent Manager
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agent Manager
Description
A class that abstracts the management of aggregations of agent classes. Each village should have an instance of a agent_manager to interface the agents inside.
Methods
add_agent()Adds a single agent to the manager.
get_average_age()Returns the average age, in years, of all the agents.
get_living_agents()Gets a list of all the agents that are currently alive.
get_states()Returns a data.frame consisting of all of the managed agents.
get_agent()Retrieves a particular agent from the manager.
get_agent_index()Retrieves the index of a agent.
initialize()Creates a new manager instance.
load()Loads a csv file defining a population of agents and places them in the manager.
remove_agent()Removes a agent from the manager
Creates a new agent manager instance.
Public fields
agentsA list of agents objects that the agent manager manages.
agent_classA class describing agents. This is usually the default villager supplied 'agent' class
Methods
Public methods
Method new()
Usage
agent_manager$new(agent_class = villager::agent)
Arguments
agent_classThe class that's being used to represent agents being managed Given the identifier of a agent, sort through all of the managed agents and return it if it exists.
Method get_agent()
Return the R6 instance of a agent with identifier 'agent_identifier'.
Usage
agent_manager$get_agent(agent_identifier)
Arguments
agent_identifierThe identifier of the requested agent.
Returns
An R6 agent object Returns a list of all the agents that are currently alive.
Method get_living_agents()
Usage
agent_manager$get_living_agents()
Returns
A list of living agents Adds a agent to the manager.
Method add_agent()
Usage
agent_manager$add_agent(...)
Arguments
...One or more agents
Returns
None Removes a agent from the manager
Method remove_agent()
Usage
agent_manager$remove_agent(agent_identifier)
Arguments
agent_identifierThe identifier of the agent being removed
Returns
None Returns a data.frame of agents
Method get_states()
Usage
agent_manager$get_states()
Details
Each row of the data.frame represents a agent object
Returns
A single data.frame of all agents Returns the index of a agent in the internal agent list
Method get_agent_index()
Usage
agent_manager$get_agent_index(agent_identifier)
Arguments
agent_identifierThe identifier of the agent being located
Returns
The index in the list, or R's default return value Connects two agents together as mates
Method connect_agents()
Usage
agent_manager$connect_agents(agent_a, agent_b)
Arguments
agent_aA agent that will be connected to agent_b
agent_bA agent that will be connected to agent_a Returns the total number of agents that are alive
Method get_living_population()
Usage
agent_manager$get_living_population()
Returns
The number of living agents Returns the average age, in years, of all of the agents
Method get_average_age()
Usage
agent_manager$get_average_age()
Details
This is an example of the kind of logic that the manager might handle. In this case, the manager is performing calculations about its aggregation (agents). Note that the 364 days needs to work better
Returns
The average age in years Takes all of the agents in the manager and reconstructs the children
Method add_children()
Usage
agent_manager$add_children()
Details
This is typically called when loading agents from disk for the first time. When children are created during the simulation, the family connections are made through the agent class and added to the manager via add_agent.
Returns
None Loads agents from disk.
Method load()
Usage
agent_manager$load(file_name)
Arguments
file_nameThe location of the file holding the agents.
Details
Populates the agent manager with a set of agents defined in a csv file.
Returns
None
Method clone()
The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.
Usage
agent_manager$clone(deep = FALSE)
Arguments
deepWhether to make a deep clone.
