ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser: 'EDGAR': Experimental Design Generator and Randomiser
Native R implementation of 'EDGAR', the Experimental Design Generator and Randomiser. 'EDGAR' was originally developed as a suite of 'Excel' <https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/excel> workbooks by the Biometrics team at Rothamsted Research <http://www.edgarweb.org.uk/>. The algorithms were subsequently re-implemented in the open-source 'Python' <https://www.python.org/> project 'rotsl/edgar' <https://rotsl.github.io/edgar/>, distributed as the 'edgar-design' package on 'PyPI' <https://pypi.org/project/edgar-design/>. This R package is a native R port of that 'Python' implementation: it does not require 'Python', 'reticulate' <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=reticulate>, or any external service at runtime, and provides deterministic, reproducible randomisation for nine experimental designs including alpha designs (Patterson and Williams, 1976) <doi:10.1093/biomet/63.1.83>. Cross-language reproducibility with the 'Python' implementation is achieved by porting the Mersenne Twister seeding implementation from 'CPython' <https://github.com/python/cpython> and the Fisher-Yates shuffle to native R.
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.6) |
| Suggests: | jsonlite, openxlsx, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-09-02 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Rohan R  [aut,
cph] (Author of the upstream Python implementation rotsl/edgar and
this native R port),
BiologyAutomation [cre] (Repository owner) |
| Maintainer: | BiologyAutomation <phonics-tiffs1i at icloud.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/biologyautomation/edgar-r/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/biologyautomation/edgar-r, https://rotsl.github.io/edgar/, http://www.edgarweb.org.uk/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser.html , ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Alpha designs and structure proposal (source, R code) Introduction to EDGAR (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ExperimentalDesignGeneratorandRandomiser_0.1.0.tgz |
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