Philosophy and Mission

qdap is born out of a frustration with current discourse analysis programs. Packaged programs are a closed system, meaning the researcher using the method has little, if any, influence on the program applied to his data.

R already has thousands of excellent packages for statistics and visualization. qdap is designed to stand as a bridge between the qualitative discourse of a transcript and the computational power and freedom that R offers. As qdap returns the power to the researcher it will also allow the researcher to be more efficient and thus effective and productive in data analysis.

The qdap package is born as a means of providing researchers with the tools to analyze data and more importantly as a dynamic system governed by the data, shaped by theory and continuously refined by the field.

...if you can dream up an analysis then qdap and R can help get you there.