RQDA

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      RQDA
      Rqda.png
      Main window in RQDA
      Developer(s) Huang Ronggui
      Stable release 0.2-3 / Dec 2012
      Operating system Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS
      Type Qualitative Data Analysis Qualitative Research
      License New BSD license
      Website rqda.r-forge.r-project.org

      RQDA is an R package for computer assisted qualitative data analysis or CAQDAS. It is installable from, and runs within, the R system, but has a separate window running a graphical user interface (through RGtk2).

      In the graphical interface it has the following functions:

      • Import documents from plain text
      • Support non-English documents, Simplified Chinese Character is well-tested under Windows
      • Support character-level coding
      • Memos for documents, codes, coding, project, files etc.
      • Retrieve coding, and easily gets back to the original file. Conditional retrieval is supported as well.
      • Single-file (*.rqda) format, which is basically the SQLite database
      • Categorize codes (tree-like categories are avoided)
      • Categorize files
      • Search files by keywords and can highlight keyword in the open file
      • Show attributes of files, which is useful for content analysis
      • Categorise cases and related attributes of cases (to bridge qualitative and quantitative research)
      • Search information about selected cases from the web
      • Rename files, codes, code categories, cases etc.
      • Write and organize fieldwork journals

      Through use of R functions, it can:

      • Import a batch of files
      • Calculate the relation between two codings, given the coding indexes
      • Give a summary of coding and inter-code relationship.
      • Export file/case attributes and show subset of files/cases.
      • Allow for more flexible conditional retrieval.
      • Boolean operations of and, or and not.

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      Last modified on 3 March 2013, at 19:04