Enhancement proposal for design.rcbd(): avoid adjacent identical treatments across blocks #10
Description
Hello,
While working with the design.rcbd() function, I encountered a situation where the same treatment appears adjacent to itself across blocks. In agricultural field trials, this spatial arrangement can lead to unintended interactions between treatments, potentially biasing the results.
A contributor on Stack Overflow proposed a modification to the design.rcbd() function to prevent identical treatments from being placed next to each other. You can find the discussion and proposed solution here.
Would you consider incorporating this enhancement into the package, or providing guidance on how best to implement it officially? I believe many users facing spatial layout concerns in field experiments would benefit from this option.
Thank you for your time and for maintaining this useful package.
Best regards.