R Observatory: Metrics for designit version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

designit

0.5.1Package record

Blocking and Randomization for Experimental Design

0packages depend

8.4Kdownloads / year

46.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Iakov I. DavydovCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: F. Hoffman-La Roche

Intelligently assign samples to batches in order to reduce batch effects. Batch effects can have a significant impact on data analysis, especially when the assignment of samples to batches coincides with the contrast groups being studied. By defining a batch container and a scoring function that reflects the contrasts, this package allows users to assign samples in a way that minimizes the potential impact of batch effects on the comparison of interest. Among other functionality, we provide an implementation for OSAT score by Yan et al. (2012, doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-689).

Changes in 0.5.1

fix test failure on R-devel. RNGkind() gained a fourth component, binom.kind, in R 4.7.0 (r90299, 2026-07-25, "fix 2 signs in formula of the BTPE algorithm for rbinom(); add RNGkind(binom.kind=*)"). The tests no longer assert that it has exactly three elements. BatchContainer traces already stored RNGkind() verbatim, so no user-visible behaviour changed.
examples, tests and vignettes now call data.table::setDTthreads(2), to avoid CPU time issues on CRAN check machines. This affects package checks only, not normal use.
optimize_multi_plate_design() now passes p = 1 and penalize_lines = "none" to the within-plate scoring functions.
new vignette showing how batch effects produce false positives.
basic_examples vignette updated to the current $move_samples() syntax and a more designit-centric workflow.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("designit", 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("BEDApub/designit")

Development version from BEDApub/designit. 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-designit

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-designit

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-designit

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: 12.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-09
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-07-27
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 165 wordsVignettesYes · 10 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 57 (18 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 63%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (10)

How these are measured

Downloads

8.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,306 · ~23/day · ~703/mo

Releases R versions

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1K30 days

2K90 days

8.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

bedapub/designit ↗Organization: bedapub

9Stars

1Forks

15Open issues

6Open PRs

0Releases

205Commits

7Commit identities

rstatsdesign-of-experimentsrandomization

205 commits · Last activity 2026-09-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 102
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 72026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bedapub/designit on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductIssue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

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

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-03

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-09-01
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 52 commits · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing designit adds 31 packages (16 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

rlang dplyr purrr ggplot2 scales tibble tidyr assertthat stringr R6 data.tablestats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

testthat roxygen2 pkgdown knitr markdown rmarkdown gt bench OSAT tidyverse printr devtools ggpattern cowplot bestNormalize here

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Iakov I. Davydov

Balazs Banfai

Author, Copyright holder

Juliane Siebourg-Polster

Author, Copyright holder

Guido Steiner

Author, Copyright holder

Jitao David Zhang

Author, Copyright holder

Konrad Rudolph

Contributor

F. Hoffman-La Roche

Copyright holder, Funder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Iakov Davydov

no longer listed · 0.5.0 to 0.5.1

Releases (2)

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0.5.1Latest
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2026-09-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.0
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2024-03-21
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-21
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 4.0 KB / 5 files
Download size: 4.6 MB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("designit")

Format

Davydov, I. I., F. Hoffman-La Roche, Banfai, B., Rudolph, K., Siebourg-Polster, J., Steiner, G., & Zhang, J. D. (2026). designit: Blocking and Randomization for Experimental Design (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.designit

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for designit version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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