Supporting Information of 'forceX and forceR: a mobile setup and R package to measure and analyse a wide range of animal closing forces' This dataset contains the Supporting Information of the publication Rühr PT & Blanke A (2022): 'forceX and forceR: a mobile setup and R package to measure and analyse a wide range of animal closing forces'. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13909. It includes validation measurements the forceX setups (1 Ruehr Blanke 2022 validation measurements.zip) all CAD files to build the forceX setup (3D-printed or metal-turned) (2 Ruehr Blanke 2022 forceX CAD files.zip) forceX assembly instructions in HTML format, including schematics of custom electronics (3 Ruehr Blanke 2022 forceX Assembly instructions.html) forceX assembly instructions as video (4 Ruehr Blanke 2022 forceX assembly video 03.mp4) R code that produced all validation-related figures used in the original publication and that functions as a forceR v.1.0.13 example workflow (5 Ruehr Blanke 2022 forceR_workflow_example.R) Python code to take videos of force measurements using the forceX camera module (6 Ruehr Blanke 2022 forceX_RPi_camera_code.py) bundled version of forceR v.1.0.15 (forceR_1.0.15.tar.gz) The CAD files and assembly instructions are also available on Thingiverse. The forceR package is available on CRAN (stable version) and GitHub (development version).