behaviorchange

25.8.0

Tools for Behavior Change Researchers and Professionals

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4.6Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Gjalt-Jorn PetersFirst published 2018-08-0513 releasesCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗

Contains specialised analyses and visualisation tools for behavior change science. These facilitate conducting determinant studies (for example, using confidence interval-based estimation of relevance, CIBER, or CIBERlite plots, see Crutzen, Noijen & Peters (2017) doi:10/ghtfz9), systematically developing, reporting, and analysing interventions (for example, using Acyclic Behavior Change Diagrams), and reporting about intervention effectiveness (for example, using the Numbers Needed for Change, see Gruijters & Peters (2017) doi:10/jzkt), and computing the required sample size (using the Meaningful Change Definition, see Gruijters & Peters (2020) doi:10/ghpnx8). This package is especially useful for researchers in the field of behavior change or health psychology and to behavior change professionals such as intervention developers and prevention workers.

Install

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

install.packages("behaviorchange", 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-behaviorchange

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-behaviorchange

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-behaviorchange

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 145 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 90%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 32%

Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,034 · ~13/day · ~387/mo

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Repository

Codeberg ↗ r-packages/behaviorchange

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (14)

BiasedUrn data.tree DiagrammeR (>= 1.0.0)DiagrammeRsvg ggplot2 googlesheets4 gridExtra gtable (>= 0.2.0)knitrmethodsrmdpartials (>= 0.5.0)ufs viridis yum

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

htmltools kableExtra openxlsx patchwork png rmarkdown rstudioapi rsvg webshot

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 9,783 (75%)Rd 2,472 (19%)Vignettes 822 (6%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S38

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 115 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

49 27 exported

Complexity

10.7 avg / 115 max

Call network

49 nodes / 33 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 10

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
BBC_pp15.1	data.frame	866 × 1	–
BBC_pp16.1	data.frame	1,105 × 1	–
BBC_pp17.1	data.frame	943 × 1	–
BBC_pp18.1	data.frame	880 × 1	–
abcd_specification_empty	data.frame	1 × 1	–
abcd_specification_example_xtc	data.frame	5 × 1	–
abcd_specs_complete	data.frame	7 × 7	–
abcd_specs_dutch_xtc	data.frame	5 × 7	–
abcd_specs_single_po_without_conditions	data.frame	3 × 5	–
abcd_specs_without_conditions	data.frame	7 × 5	–

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Gjalt-Jorn Peters

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gjalt-Jorn Peters

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Jeroen Bruinsma

Contributor · added in 25.8.0

Rik Crutzen

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Stefan Gruijters

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-02-10
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-01-24
requires archived package 'ufs'
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2020-10-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-09-25
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-09-23
required archived package 'userfriendlyscience' by the same author
0.0.1
2018-08-05
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-05
Total releases: 13 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.1 MB / 10 files
Download size: 2.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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