CombinS

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Construction Methods for Series of PBIB Designs via Combinatory Method S

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mohamed LaibFirst published 2013-12-124 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides constructions of series of partially balanced incomplete block designs (PBIB) based on the combinatory method S, introduced by Rezgui et al. (2014) doi:10.3844/jmssp.2014.45.48. This package also offers the associated U-type designs. Version 1.1-1 generalizes the approach to designs with v = wnl treatments. It includes various rectangular and generalized rectangular right angular association schemes with 4, 5, and 7 associated classes.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("CombinS", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-combins

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-CombinS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Mohamed Laib

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Authors (4)

Mohamed Laib

Author, Maintainer

Zebida Gheribi-Aoulmi

Author · added in 1.1

Herve Monod

Author

Imane Rezgui

Author

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Zoubida Gheribi-Aoulmi

no longer listed · 1.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-12-12
Total releases: 4 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 6.4 KB
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