R Observatory: Metrics for PolycrossDesigns version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PolycrossDesigns

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Polycross Designs ("PolycrossDesigns")

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2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ashutosh DalalCRAN page ↗

A polycross is the pollination by natural hybridization of a group of genotypes, generally selected, grown in isolation from other compatible genotypes in such a way to promote random open pollination. A particular practical application of the polycross method occurs in the production of a synthetic variety resulting from cross-pollinated plants. Laying out these experiments in appropriate designs, known as polycross designs, would not only save experimental resources but also gather more information from the experiment. Different experimental situations may arise in polycross nurseries which may be requiring different polycross designs (Varghese et. al. (2015) doi:10.1080/02664763.2015.1043860. " Experimental designs for open pollination in polycross trials"). This package contains a function named PD() which generates nine types of polycross designs suitable for various experimental situations.

Install

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

install.packages("PolycrossDesigns", 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-polycrossdesigns

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-PolycrossDesigns

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-PolycrossDesigns

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

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Slowest check: 41 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,621 · ~7/day · ~199/mo

Releases R versions

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18130 days

48590 days

2.4K1 year

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Dependencies

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0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

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Suggests (0)

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Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (5)

Ashutosh Dalal

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022)

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-19
Total releases: 2 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 5.0 KB

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Format

Dalal, A., Bhowmik, A., Jaggi, S., Varghese, C., & Varghese, E. (2022). PolycrossDesigns: Polycross Designs ("PolycrossDesigns") (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PolycrossDesigns

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PolycrossDesigns version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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