R Observatory: Metrics for PBIBD version 1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PBIBD

1.4Package record

Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs

0packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kush SharmaCRAN page ↗

The PBIB designs are important type of incomplete block designs having wide area of their applications for example in agricultural experiments, in plant breeding, in sample surveys etc. This package constructs various series of PBIB designs and assists in checking all the necessary conditions of PBIB designs and the association scheme on which these designs are based on. It also assists in calculating the efficiencies of PBIB designs with any number of associate classes. The package also constructs Youden-m square designs which are Row-Column designs for the two-way elimination of heterogeneity. The incomplete columns of these Youden-m square designs constitute PBIB designs. With the present functionality, the package will be of immense importance for the researchers as it will help them to construct PBIB designs, to check if their PBIB designs and association scheme satisfy various necessary conditions for the existence, to calculate the efficiencies of PBIB designs based on any association scheme and to construct Youden-m square designs for the two-way elimination of heterogeneity. R. C. Bose and K. R. Nair (1939) http://www.jstor.org/stable/40383923.

Install

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

install.packages("PBIBD", 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-pbibd

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-PBIBD

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-PBIBD

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: 44 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,681 · ~16/day · ~491/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33130 days

98090 days

5.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on91 r2u4 autocran125 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PBIBD adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Kush Sharma

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

Davinder Kumar Garg

Author

Parneet Kaur

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Garg

no longer listed · 1.4

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4Latest
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2025-05-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.3
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2017-12-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
apbibd2, apbibd3, apbibd4, apbibd5

added 7 exports
circulant, series5, series6, verify, ym1, ym2, ym3
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2
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2017-01-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
series1, series2, series3, series4
1.1
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2016-10-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
apbibd
1.0
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2016-08-25
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-25
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 16 KB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science Design of Experiments (DoE) & Analysis of Experimental Data

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("PBIBD")

Format

Sharma, K., Garg, D. K., & Kaur, P. (2025). PBIBD: Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (Version 1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PBIBD

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PBIBD version 1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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