Package: MFRCD
Type: Package
Title: Optimal Row-Column Designs for Asymmetrical Factorial
        Experiments
Version: 0.1.1
Authors@R: c(
    person("Archana", "A", role = "aut"),
    person("Sukanta", "Dash", email = "sukanta.iasri@gmail.com",
           role = c("aut", "cre"))
    )
Maintainer: Sukanta Dash <sukanta.iasri@gmail.com>
Description: 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.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.0.0)
Imports: stats
Suggests: mixedfact, roxygen2, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-05-09 04:24:04 UTC; B.N Mandal
Author: Archana A [aut],
  Sukanta Dash [aut, cre]
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-11 07:50:12 UTC
