Category Archives: qdap

Visualizing APA 6 Citations: qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0

Posted on December 24, 2014 by tylerrinker

qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0 have been released to CRAN.  This post will provide some of the packages’ updates/features and provide an integrate demonstration of extracting and viewing in-text APA 6 style citations from an MS Word (.docx) document. qdapRegex … Continue reading →

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Exploration of Letter Make Up of English Words

Posted on October 31, 2014 by tylerrinker

This blog post will do a quick exploration of the grapheme make up of words in the English. Specifically we will use R and the qdap package to answer 3 questions: What is the distribution of word lengths (number of … Continue reading →

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Canned Regular Expressions: qdapRegex 0.1.2 on CRAN

Posted on September 27, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re pleased to announce first CRAN release of qdapRegex! You can read about qdapRegex or skip right to the examples. qdapRegex is a collection of regular expression tools associated with the qdap package that may be useful outside of the context … Continue reading →

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Spell Checker for R…qdap::check_spelling

Posted on September 4, 2014 by tylerrinker

I often have had requests for a spell checker for R character vectors. The utils::aspell function can be used to check spelling but many Windows users have reported difficulty with the function. I came across an article on spelling in … Continue reading →

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qdap 2.1.1 Released

Posted on August 3, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 2.1.1 What is qdap? 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 … Continue reading →

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What Would Cohen Have Titled “The Earth is Round (p < .05)" in 2014?

Posted on June 25, 2014 by tylerrinker

The area of bibliometrics is not my area of expertise but is still of interest as a researcher. I sometimes think about how Google has impacted the way we title articles. Gone are the days of witty, snappy titles. Title … Continue reading →

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Handling @S3method’s Death in roxygen2 Version 4.0.0

Posted on May 12, 2014 by tylerrinker

This is a quickie post and specific to package maintainers who use roxygen2. Legal Disclaimer: This worked for me but make sure there’s not a corner case that would make it not work for you.  In other words back your … Continue reading →

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qdap 1.3.1 Release: Demoing Dispersion Plots, Sentiment Analysis, Easy Hash Lookups, Boolean Searches and More…

Posted on March 14, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 1.3.1 This is the latest installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. Several important updates have occurred since the 1.1.0 release, most notable the addition of two vignettes and some … Continue reading →

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qdap 1.1.0 Released on CRAN

Posted on February 23, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 1.1.0 This is the fourth installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. Major development has taken place since the last CRAN update. The qdap package automates many of the tasks … Continue reading →

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Sentence Drawing: Part II

Posted on December 24, 2013 by tylerrinker

In a recent blog post I introduced Stefanie Posavec‘s Sentence Drawings. We created this ggplot2 rendition: We left off weighing the aesthetics of the Sentence Drawing with information of quality visualizations. I asked others to think of ways to display … Continue reading →

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