R Observatory: Metrics for GreedyExperimentalDesign version 1.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GreedyExperimentalDesign

1.6.1Package record

Greedy Experimental Design Construction

1packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam KapelnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computes experimental designs for two-arm experiments with covariates using multiple methods, including: (0) complete randomization and randomization with forced-balance; (1) greedy optimization of a balance objective function via pairwise switching; (2) numerical optimization via 'gurobi'; (3) rerandomization; (4) Karp's method for one covariate; (5) exhaustive enumeration for small sample sizes; (6) binary pair matching using 'nbpMatching'; (7) binary pair matching plus method (1) to further optimize balance; (8) binary pair matching plus method (3) to further optimize balance; (9) Hadamard designs; and (10) simultaneous multiple kernels. For the greedy, rerandomization, and related methods, three objective functions are supported: Mahalanobis distance, standardized sums of absolute differences, and kernel distances via the 'kernlab' library. This package is the result of a stream of research that can be found in Krieger, A. M., Azriel, D. A., and Kapelner, A. (2019). "Nearly Random Designs with Greatly Improved Balance." Biometrika 106(3), 695-701 doi:10.1093/biomet/asz026. Krieger, A. M., Azriel, D. A., and Kapelner, A. (2023). "Better experimental design by hybridizing binary matching with imbalance optimization." Canadian Journal of Statistics, 51(1), 275-292 doi:10.1002/cjs.11685.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("kapelner/GreedyExperimentalDesign")

Development version from kapelner/GreedyExperimentalDesign. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-greedyexperimentaldesign

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-GreedyExperimentalDesign

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-GreedyExperimentalDesign

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-24
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-06
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.6.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 74
Examples that run: 0%45 never run
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 68%
Help pages citing references: 1%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,216 · ~16/day · ~494/mo

Releases R versions

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41730 days

1.2K90 days

5.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

kapelner/greedyexperimentaldesign ↗Account: kapelner

0Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

212Commits

4Commit identities

212 commits · Last activity 2026-09-03

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 444
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2020-03-09 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kapelner/greedyexperimentaldesign on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Codexfirst seen 2026-04-27
Named in .gitignore: .codex
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Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GreedyExperimentalDesign adds 57 packages (31 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0rJava

Imports (11)

Rcpp checkmate nbpMatching rlist stringr stringi kernlab ggplot2graphicsgrDevicesstats

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

testthat pkgload R6

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

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Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

OptimalRerandExpDesigns

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Adam Kapelner

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

David Azriel

Author

Abba Krieger

Author · added in 1.5

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Abba M. Krieger

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.4

Releases (9)

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1.6.1Latest
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2026-04-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
compute_distance_matrix_gpu, compute_kernel_matrix_gpu, compute_multiple_kernel_objective_vals_gpu, compute_objective_vals_gpu, compute_randomization_metrics_gpu, full_greedy_search_gpu, ged_gpu_available, ged_gpu_devices
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6
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2026-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
initBinaryMatchExperimentalDesignSearch, initBinaryMatchFollowedByGreedyExperimentalDesignSearch, initBinaryMatchFollowedByRerandomizationDesignSearch

added 13 exports
all_elements_same_cpp_wrap, compute_distance_matrix_cpp_wrap, create_all_ys_cpp_wrap, gen_pm_designs_cpp_wrap, gen_var_cov_matrix_block_designs, generate_block_design_cpp_wrap, initBinaryMatchExperimentalDesignSearchObject, initBinaryMatchFollowedByGreedyExperimentalDesignSearchObject, initBinaryMatchFollowedByRerandomizationDesignSearchObject, initGurobiNumericalOptimizationExperimentalDesignObject, resultsGurobiNumericalOptimizeSearch, safe_cov_inverse, shuffle_cpp_wrap
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.5.6.1
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2023-07-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
imbalanced_block_designs, imbalanced_complete_randomization, optimize_asymmetric_treatment_assignment
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.5.5
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2022-11-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
computeBinaryMatchStructure
1.5
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2022-11-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
binaryMatchExperimentalDesignSearch, binaryMatchFollowedByGreedyExperimentalDesignSearch, binaryMatchFollowedByRerandomizationDesignSearch

added 5 exports
initBinaryMatchExperimentalDesignSearch, initBinaryMatchFollowedByGreedyExperimentalDesignSearch, initBinaryMatchFollowedByRerandomizationDesignSearch, initGreedyMultipleKernelExperimentalDesignObject, resultsMultipleKernelGreedySearch
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.4
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2020-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
complete_randomization_with_balanced_ns, gurobi_multiple_designs, initGurobiNumericalOptimizationExperimentalDesignObject, resultsGurobiNumericalOptimizeExperimentalDesign

added 12 exports
binaryMatchExperimentalDesignSearch, binaryMatchFollowedByGreedyExperimentalDesignSearch, binaryMatchFollowedByRerandomizationDesignSearch, complete_randomization_with_forced_balanced, compute_gram_matrix, greedy_orthogonalization_curation, greedy_orthogonalization_curation2, hadamardExperimentalDesign, resultsBinaryMatchSearch, resultsBinaryMatchThenGreedySearch, resultsBinaryMatchThenRerandomizationSearch, standardize_data_matrix
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-07-15
1.2
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2018-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
complete_randomization_with_balanced_ns, gurobi_multiple_designs, initGurobiNumericalOptimizationExperimentalDesignObject, resultsGurobiNumericalOptimizeExperimentalDesign

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-05-27
installation errors with Java 10 were not corrected despite reminders
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1
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2018-03-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0
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2016-12-08
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-08
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 166 KB

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Kapelner, A., Azriel, D., & Krieger, A. (2026). GreedyExperimentalDesign: Greedy Experimental Design Construction (Version 1.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GreedyExperimentalDesign

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GreedyExperimentalDesign version 1.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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