qdaR 0.1.0
First release.
- Reads all nine formats of the zotQDA exchange contract v1,
validating the format stamp, the version and the promised columns;
refuses an export from a newer version rather than guessing at it.
Reference files are installed with the package, so every example, test
and vignette chunk runs without a Zotero installation and without
network access.
- Projects from other QDA software can be read through the REFI-QDA
interchange standard (
qda_read_qdpx()); the subset a
.qdpx file supports is reported on import.
- Reproduces the plugins’ graphics with ggplot2 – code frequencies,
the code-document matrix, saturation, timeline, MDS – and can
additionally re-render the original Vega-Lite chart specifications
unchanged via the suggested vegawidget package.
- Intercoder reliability reimplemented independently of the plugins:
percentage agreement, Cohen’s and Fleiss’ kappa, Brennan and Prediger’s
coefficient, Krippendorff’s alpha and Gwet’s AC1, each with bootstrap or
Wilson confidence intervals, plus level-wise agreement over a
hierarchical code system, the confusion table and the annotation paradox
diagnostics. Checked against frozen results of the plugins’ JavaScript
implementation.
- The reliability of the segmentation itself, before categories are
even compared: Krippendorff’s unitizing alpha, Mathet’s gamma with its
best alignment, WindowDiff and Pk.
- Progress and reporting: saturation measures with a stopping
criterion, code drift across coding sessions, and generated COREQ and
SRQR checklists.
- Inferential statistics the plugins deliberately leave out:
chi-squared tests of code-by-group tables with Cramér’s V and an exact
or Monte Carlo fallback, Jaccard code distances, classical
multidimensional scaling, hierarchical clustering with the cophenetic
correlation, and correspondence analysis with the share of inertia
shown.
- Licensed AGPL-3 with one additional permission on top: what you
produce with the package – results, figures, reports – is yours,
unconditionally.