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qdap (Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package) is an R package designed to assist in quantitative discourse analysis. The package stands as a bridge between qualitative transcripts of dialogue and statistical analysis and visualization.
To download the development version of qdap:
Download the zip ball or tar ball, decompress and run R CMD INSTALL on it, or use the devtools package to install the development version:
# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("qdap", "trinker")Note: Windows users need Rtools and devtools to install this way.
Additionally, Windows users currently must install RCurl before installing qdap. Use the following short script:
URL <- "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.0/"
install.packages("RCurl", contriburl = URL)Note: Mac users might be required to install the appropriate version XTools from the Apple Developer site in order to install the development version. You may need to register as an Apple developer. An older version of XTools may also be required.
install.packages("openNLP", type = "source")The qdap web page: trinker.github.com/qdap [improvements to come]
For a variety of qdap help files and videos click here.
For the package pdf help manual click here.