R Observatory: Metrics for OptimalRerandExpDesigns version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OptimalRerandExpDesigns

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Optimal Rerandomization Experimental Designs

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2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Adam KapelnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This is a tool to find the optimal rerandomization threshold in non-sequential experiments. We offer three procedures based on assumptions made on the residuals distribution: (1) normality assumed (2) excess kurtosis assumed (3) entire distribution assumed. Illustrations are included. Also included is a routine to unbiasedly estimate Frobenius norms of variance-covariance matrices. Details of the method can be found in "Optimal Rerandomization via a Criterion that Provides Insurance Against Failed Experiments" Adam Kapelner, Abba M. Krieger, Michael Sklar and David Azriel (2020) arXiv:1905.03337.

Install

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

install.packages("OptimalRerandExpDesigns", 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("kapelner/OptimalRerandExpDesigns")

Development version from kapelner/OptimalRerandExpDesigns. 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-optimalrerandexpdesigns

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-OptimalRerandExpDesigns

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-OptimalRerandExpDesigns

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Adam Kapelner <kapelner@qc.cuny.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Adam",
                      family = "Kapelner",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "kapelner@qc.cuny.edu"),
               person(given = "Michael",
                      family = "Sklar",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Abba", "M."),
                      family = "Krieger",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "David",
                      family = "Azriel",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

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use bibentry() instead.

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  M. Krieger, Michael Sklar and David Azriel (2020) <arXiv:1905.03337>.
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-06

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ERROR12 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 25%1 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 6%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,272 · ~6/day · ~193/mo

Releases R versions

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19430 days

56590 days

2.3K1 year

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Repository

kapelner/optimalrerandexpdesigns ↗Account: kapelner

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License file reads as MIT · Last activity 2021-01-22

Responsiveness

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PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/kapelner/optimalrerandexpdesigns on 2026-10-22.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing OptimalRerandExpDesigns adds 59 packages (32 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.2.0ggplot2 momentchi2 GreedyExperimentalDesign

Imports (1)

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People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (4)

Maintainer since 1.1 (2021)

Releases (1)

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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
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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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2021-01-28 · current release
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-28
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 13 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("OptimalRerandExpDesigns")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for OptimalRerandExpDesigns version 1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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