behaviorchange: Tools for Behavior Change Researchers and Professionals

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.

Version: 25.8.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: BiasedUrn (≥ 1.07), data.tree (≥ 0.7.5), DiagrammeR (≥ 1.0.0), DiagrammeRsvg (≥ 0.1.0), ggplot2 (≥ 2.2.1), googlesheets4 (≥ 0.2.0), gridExtra (≥ 2.3), gtable (≥ 0.2.0), knitr (≥ 1.0), methods (≥ 3.0), rmdpartials (≥ 0.5.0), ufs (≥ 0.3.2), viridis (≥ 0.5.1), yum (≥ 0.0.1)
Suggests: htmltools, kableExtra, openxlsx, patchwork (≥ 1.3.0), png (≥ 0.1), rmarkdown, rstudioapi, rsvg, webshot
Published: 2025-08-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.behaviorchange
Author: Gjalt-Jorn Peters ORCID iD [aut, cre], Rik Crutzen ORCID iD [ctb], Jeroen Bruinsma ORCID iD [ctb], Stefan Gruijters ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Gjalt-Jorn Peters <behaviorchange at opens.science>
BugReports: https://codeberg.org/R-packages/behaviorchange/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://behaviorchange.opens.science
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: behaviorchange citation info
Materials: README
In views: CausalInference
CRAN checks: behaviorchange results

Documentation:

Reference manual: behaviorchange.html , behaviorchange.pdf
Vignettes: ABCD: Laagdrempelige Nederlandse Uitleg (source, R code)
Acyclic Behavior Change Diagrams (source, R code)
Creating a COMPLECS overview (source, R code)
The Determinant Selection Table (source, R code)
Determinant Selection Tutorial (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: behaviorchange_25.8.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: behaviorchange_25.8.0.zip, r-release: behaviorchange_25.8.0.zip, r-oldrel: behaviorchange_25.8.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): behaviorchange_25.8.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): behaviorchange_25.8.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): behaviorchange_25.8.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): behaviorchange_25.8.0.tgz
Old sources: behaviorchange archive

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