R Observatory: Metrics for interactions version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

interactions

1.2.0Package record

Comprehensive, User-Friendly Toolkit for Probing Interactions

1packages dependsuggested by 3

171.7Kdownloads / year

71.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jacob A. LongCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A suite of functions for conducting and interpreting analysis of statistical interaction in regression models that was formerly part of the 'jtools' package. Functionality includes visualization of two- and three-way interactions among continuous and/or categorical variables as well as calculation of "simple slopes" and Johnson-Neyman intervals (see e.g., Bauer & Curran, 2005 doi:10.1207/s15327906mbr4003_5). These capabilities are implemented for generalized linear models in addition to the standard linear regression context.

Changes in 1.2.0

A special thanks to Github user @olivroy for contributing a number of mostly

under-the-hood updates prior to this release.

Enhancements:

sim_slopes() now supports non-continuous variables in the pred argument.
sim_slopes() now has an at argument, allowing you to specify an exact,

perhaps non-centered, level for variables not involved in the interaction.

interact_plot() now has provisional support for factor predictors (pred).

Users will receive a message because of the possibility for unexpected

behavior. cat_plot() likewise has support for continuous moderators. (#54)

Website and some documentation have been revamped and upgraded.
Users can now change the axis labels for johnson_neyman() plots via the

arguments y.label and modx.label. (#56)

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Models produced by the panelr package are better supported.

Bug fixes:

johnson_neyman() now handles non-syntactic variable names for modx

correctly. (#56)

sim_slopes() no longer displays results with factor moderators in the

reverse order of the factor's levels. (#55)

probe_interactions() no longer errors when certain combinations of arguments

are provided. (#50)

sim_slopes() no longer errors when ordered factors are moderators.

Thanks to Jonathan Zadra for suggesting the fix. (#42)

sim_slopes() no longer errors when given merModTest objects.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("interactions", 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("jacob-long/interactions")

Development version from jacob-long/interactions. 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-interactions

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-interactions

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-interactions

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.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘broom’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 746 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 31%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

171.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,184 · ~471/day · ~14.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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10.9K30 days

28.3K90 days

171.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

jacob-long/interactions ↗Account: jacob-long

136Stars

20Forks

35Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

925Commits

3Commit identities

rr-packagestatisticssocial-sciencesinteractionsrstatsmoderation

925 commits · Last activity 2024-07-31 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-23 · 1322026-09-29 · 136

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jacob-long/interactions on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductIssue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

pkgdown site last built 2024-07-31

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

VS Code

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing interactions adds 45 packages (21 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, broom.mixed 4.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

ggplot2 cli generics broom jtools rlang tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

cowplot broom.mixed glue huxtable lme4 margins sandwich survey knitr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

3indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bruceR

Suggests, most downloaded first

rempsyc dda mellio

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jacob A. Long

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jacob A.

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.2.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-19
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 3.5 MB

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("interactions")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.interactions.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for interactions version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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