R Observatory: Metrics for blocksdesign version 4.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blocksdesign

4.9

Nested and Crossed Block Designs for Factorial and Unstructured Treatment Sets

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Overview

About

Maintained by Rodney EdmondsonFirst published 2014-09-2940 releasesCRAN page ↗

Constructs treatment and block designs for linear treatment models with crossed or nested block factors. The treatment design can be any feasible linear model and the block design can be any feasible combination of crossed or nested block factors. The block design is a sum of one or more block factors and the block design is optimized sequentially with the levels of each successive block factor optimized conditional on all previously optimized block factors. D-optimality is used throughout except for square or rectangular lattice block designs which are constructed algebraically using mutually orthogonal Latin squares. Crossed block designs with interaction effects are optimized using a weighting scheme which allows for differential weighting of first and second-order block effects. Outputs include a table showing the allocation of treatments to blocks and tables showing the achieved D-efficiency factors for each block and treatment design. Edmondson, R.N. Multi-level Block Designs for Comparative Experiments. JABES 25, 500–522 (2020) doi:10.1007/s13253-020-00416-0.

Install

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

install.packages("blocksdesign", 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-blocksdesign

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-blocksdesign

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-blocksdesign

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

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Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 57%

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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-29
Total releases: 40 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Bundled data: 3.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 366 KB
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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blocksdesign version 4.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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