R Observatory: Metrics for beezdiscounting version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

beezdiscounting

0.3.2Package record

Behavioral Economic Easy Discounting

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3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Brent A. KaplanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Facilitates some of the analyses performed in studies of behavioral economic discounting. The package supports scoring of the 27-Item Monetary Choice Questionnaire (see Kaplan et al., 2016; doi:10.1007/s40614-016-0070-9), calculating k values (Mazur's simple hyperbolic and exponential) using nonlinear regression, calculating various Area Under the Curve (AUC) measures, plotting regression curves for both fit-to-group and two-stage approaches, checking for unsystematic discounting (Johnson & Bickel, 2008; doi:10.1037/1064-1297.16.3.264) and scoring of the minute discounting task (see Koffarnus & Bickel, 2014; doi:10.1037/a0035973) using the Qualtrics 5-trial discounting template (see the Qualtrics Minute Discounting User Guide; doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.26495.79527), which is also available as a .qsf file in this package.

Changes in 0.3.2

New Features

**fit_dd()**:
Introduced a new function to fit delay-discounting models using specified equations ("mazur"/"hyperbolic" or "exponential") and methods ("pooled", "mean", or "two stage").
Supports flexible data handling for aggregated and participant-specific modeling.
Returns an object of class "fit_dd" containing the fitted models, input data, and method details.
**plot_dd()**:
Added a function to visualize fitted delay-discounting models.
Automatically adapts to different fitting methods, including aggregated and individual models.
Provides customizable axis labels, title, and optional log-transformed x-axis for improved visualization of delay scales.
**results_dd()**:
New utility to extract model parameter estimates, confidence intervals, and fit statistics from a "fit_dd" object.
Supports both aggregated and participant-specific models.

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Outputs a tidy tibble with columns for terms, estimates, standard errors, t-statistics, p-values, R2, three different AUC metrics, and confidence bounds.
**check_unsystematic()**:
New utility function to check delay-discounting datasets for unsystematic data patterns according to Johnson & Bickel's (2008) two criteria.
**calc_aucs()**:
New utility function to calculate three different area under the curve (AUC) metrics for delay-discounting data according to Borges et al. (2016).

Improvements

Confidence intervals are now computed using the calc_conf_int() function, ensuring accurate estimation based on model degrees of freedom.
R2 values are calculated consistently using the calc_r2() function, providing reliable fit metrics for all models.

Enhancements

The package now supports robust delay-discounting workflows, from unsystematic identification (check_unsystematic), model fitting (fit_dd), to visualization (plot_dd), to result extraction (results_dd).
Improved compatibility with delay-discounting datasets that require participant-level or aggregated modeling approaches.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("beezdiscounting", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("brentkaplan/beezdiscounting")

Development version from brentkaplan/beezdiscounting. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-beezdiscounting

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-beezdiscounting

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-beezdiscounting

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

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  File(s) using such syntax:
    'fitting.R'

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Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘fitting.R’ ‘fivetrial.R’ ‘mcq.R’ ‘utils.R’

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Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

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In release 0.3.2

READMEYes · 5,626 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs it

Help pages: 34 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%25 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

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5Releases

292Commits

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delay-discountingmonetary-choice-questionnaire5-trial-discounting

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 292 commits · Last activity 2026-09-22 · Default branch at 0.4.0, ahead of CRAN 0.3.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

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PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 44

Stars over time

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Dependencies

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12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing beezdiscounting adds 63 packages (30 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, beezdemand 5.6 MB.

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R >= 2.10

Imports (12)

beezdemand broom dplyr ggplot2 gtools magrittr minpack.lm psych purrr stringr tibble tidyr

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Brent A. Kaplan

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 0.3.2

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

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Brent Kaplan

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.2Latest
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2025-01-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
calc_aucs, calc_conf_int, calc_r2, check_unsystematic, fit_dd, get_lookup_table, plot_dd, prop_ss, results_dd, summarize_mcq
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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generate_data_mcq, long_to_wide_mcq, long_to_wide_mcq_excel, wide_to_long_mcq, wide_to_long_mcq_excel
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-26
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 7.7 KB / 4 files
Download size: 191 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for beezdiscounting version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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