createTrial: A function to create instances of the ClinicalTrial class.
In randPack: Randomization routines for Clinical Trials

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This function should be used in preference to calls to new to create instances of the ClinicalTrials class.

1	createTrial(CExp, seed)

`CExp`	An instance of the ClinicalExperiment class.
`seed`	A seed for the random number generator.

To ensure proper initialization of the different components this function should be called when creating new instances of the ClinicalTrial class.

An instance of the ClinicalTrial class.

R. Gentleman

ClinicalExperiment-class

 #define the available treatments and their relative allocations
 trts = c( A = 3L, B = 4L, C = 1L)
 #describe the permuted block design
 pbdesc = new("PermutedBlockDesc", treatments = trts, type="PermutedBlock",
     numBlocks=4L)

 pIDs = new("PatientID", strata="Test", start=100L, stop=200L)

 #define the ClinicalExperiment
 CE1 = new("ClinicalExperiment",
    name="My first experiment",
    treatments = trts,
    factors = list( F1 = c("A", "B", "C"), F2 = c("t1", "t2")),
    randomization = list(pbdesc),
    patientIDs = pIDs
 )


 #now create the instance of the trial
 CT1 = createTrial(CE1, seed=301)