R Observatory: Metrics for blockTools version 0.6.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blockTools

0.6.6

Block, Assign, and Diagnose Potential Interference in Randomized Experiments

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

19.7%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryan T. MooreFirst published 2007-08-2519 releasesCRAN page ↗

Blocks units into experimental blocks, with one unit per treatment condition, by creating a measure of multivariate distance between all possible pairs of units. Maximum, minimum, or an allowable range of differences between units on one variable can be set. Randomly assign units to treatment conditions. Diagnose potential interference between units assigned to different treatment conditions. Write outputs to .tex and .csv files. For more information on the methods implemented, see Moore (2012) doi:10.1093/pan/mps025.

Install

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

install.packages("blockTools", 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-blocktools

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

# 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-blockTools

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-blockTools

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

19.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMEYes · 113 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 38%

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,241 · ~14/day · ~434/mo

Releases R versions

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32630 days

1.2K90 days

5.2K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

dplyrMASStibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

nbpMatching RItools testthat xtable

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Ryan T. Moore

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Ryan T. Moore

Author, Maintainer

Keith Schnakenberg

Author · added in 0.5-7

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ryan T.

no longer listed · 0.6.4 to 0.6.6

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-08-25
Total releases: 19 / 19 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 4.4 KB / 2 files
Download size: 70 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Moore, R. T., & Schnakenberg, K. (2025). blockTools: Block, Assign, and Diagnose Potential Interference in Randomized Experiments (Version 0.6.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blockTools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blockTools version 0.6.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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