Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package

Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap)

Developer(s)	Bryan Goodrich, Dason Kurkiewicz, Tyler Rinker
Stable release	2.3.2 / Jan 2019
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Type	Qualitative data analysis, Discourse analysis
License	GPL2 license
Website	cran.r-project.org/web/packages/qdap/

Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap) is an R package for computer assisted qualitative data analysis, particularly quantitative discourse analysis, transcript analysis and natural language processing. Qdap is installable from, and runs within, the R system.

Qdap is a tool for quantitative analysis of qualitative transcripts and therefore provides a bridge between quantitative and qualitative research approaches. It is designed for transcript analysis, but its features overlap with natural language processing and text mining.

Its features include:

• tools for the preparation of transcript data
• frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentences, turns of talk, syllables
• aggregation using grouping variables
• word extracting and visualization
• statistical analysis.

For higher level statistical analysis and visualization of text, qdap is integrated with R and offers integration with other R packages.

Alternatives

• KH Coder (Windows, Linux, macOS) for quantitative content analysis and text mining.

See also

• Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software

External links

• Official website
• qdap manual
• qdap developer website
• Text Mining First-step Report