setMutationType: SLiM method setMutationType
In rdinnager/slimrlang: Write SLiM Population Genetics Simulation Scripts in R

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Documentation for SLiM function setMutationType, which is a method of the SLiM class Mutation. 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.

1	setMutationType(mutType)

mutType

An object of type integer or MutationType object. Must be of length 1 (a singleton). See details for description.

Set the mutation type of the mutation to mutType (which may be specified as either an integer identifier or a MutationType object). This implicitly changes the dominance coefficient of the mutation to that of the new mutation type, since the dominance coefficient is a property of the mutation type. On the other hand, the selection coefficient of the mutation is not changed, since it is a property of the mutation object itself; it can be changed explicitly using the setSelectionCoeff() method if so desired. The mutation type of a mutation is normally a constant in simulations, so be sure you know what you are doing. Changing this will normally affect the fitness values calculated at the end of the current generation; if you want current fitness values to be affected, you can call SLiMSim’s method recalculateFitness() – but see the documentation of that method for caveats. In nucleotide-based models, a restriction applies: nucleotide-based mutations may not be changed to a non- nucleotide-based mutation type, and non-nucleotide-based mutations may not be changed to a nucleotide-based mutation type.

An object of type any but object or void or void or void.

This is documentation for a function in the SLiM software, and has been reproduced from the official manual, which can be found here: http://benhaller.com/slim/SLiM_Manual.pdf. This documentation is Copyright © 2016–2020 Philipp Messer. All rights reserved. More information about SLiM can be found on the official website: https://messerlab.org/slim/

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

rdinnager/slimrlang documentation built on June 20, 2020, 8:17 p.m.