MFRCD

0.1.1

Optimal Row-Column Designs for Asymmetrical Factorial Experiments

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Overview

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Maintained by Sukanta DashFirst published 2026-05-072 releasesCRAN page ↗

Constructs and analyzes optimal row-column designs for mixed-level factorial experiments under square and rectangular field layouts. For square field layouts, the package implements direct common-factor constructions by first forming two component treatment arrays, one for each factor or super-factor, and then combining them through a symbolic cell-wise product following Gopinath, Parsad and Mandal (2018) doi:10.1080/03610926.2017.1376091. For rectangular field layouts, the package constructs designs by extracting a balanced principal block from a mixed-level block design, treating it as the principal column, taking the complete treatment set as the principal row, and generating the full row-column design by cyclic modular development. The package also includes repair utilities for improving disconnected or partially connected row-column designs through bounded treatment-swap searches while preserving the row-column layout structure. The package provides diagnostic tools for connectedness, orthogonal factorial structure, balance, estimability, and selected optimality criteria for row-column designs.

Install

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

install.packages("MFRCD", 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-mfrcd

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-MFRCD

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-MFRCD

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-05-07
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.0.0

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Sukanta Dash

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Authors (2)

Sukanta Dash

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Archana A

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
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