R-Forge Project: RQDA: CAQDA with R - News

RQDA 0.2-1 is released

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:43:23 GMT

Changes included (but not limited to):
* change of the GUI: add two buttons (new and attribute) to the file tab.
* C2Memo button is removed and right-click of coding label activate the same coding memo widget
* new function of ViewPlainFile
* only update the coding database when the code anchor is removed to avoid the ensuing wrong index
* bugfixes related to highlighting and tooltips (caused by changes of api in up stream packages)
* other bugfixes

RQDA 0.1-9 is on CRAN now

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:55:40 GMT

RQDA is a R package for computer-aided qualitative data analysis (CAQDA). It is an easy-to-use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data.

RQDA 0.1-9 is a major upgrade with the following changes:
* widgets are enabled only if they are usable.
* Better code categories management system and various improvements of GUI.
* Click-handler for second half of code-mark.
* Better default color scheme for code mark.
* New function of and().
* New option "both" in "type of retrieval".
* New option of subset in GetAtrr().
* It can handle ' correctly now.
* Various bugfixes.

As always, feedbacks and suggestions are more than welcome.

Ronggui

RQDA 0.1-7 is sumbitted to CRAN

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:51:08 GMT

I just submitted RQDA 0.1-7 to CRAN today. It will be on CRAN soon. The new features are:
+ Attributes of file and case.
+ New function of GetAttr to get attributes. New function ShowSubset to push back subset of files to widget according to attributes.
+ Journal Tab for fieldwork journal.
+ New function of AddNewFileFun, now you can add new file from popup menu of file Tab.
+ New functions of GetFileIdSets, GetCaseId, GetCaseName and RQDAQuery, to make inquery more easier.
+ Function of retrieval is exported, New function of GetFileIdSets. They can be used together for flexible ways of retrieving codings.
+ New function of RQDA2tm (contributed by J-P Mueller)
+ Many popup menus are added to facilitate files organization.
+ gselect.list is exported.
+ Can delete multiple files in Files Tab.
+ Find a word and highlight it in the open file (via popup menu in File Tab).
+ Use Namespace now.
+ Other bugfixes.

As always, feedback, comment and suggestions are welcome.

If you have used RQDA 0.1-7 beta, you may need to run the following command as I have modified the data tables during the deveopment.
####### begin
if (! "journal" %in% dbListTables(RQDA:::.rqda$qdacon)) {
dbGetQuery(RQDA:::.rqda$qdacon, "create table journal (name text, journal text, date text, dateM text, owner text,status integer)")
}

if ("attributes" %in% dbListTables(RQDA:::.rqda$qdacon)) {
if (! "memo" %in% dbListFields(RQDA:::.rqda$qdacon,"attributes"))) {
dbGetQuery(RQDA:::.rqda$qdacon, "alter table attributes add column memo text")
}
##### end
}

RQDA-0.1-6 is on CRAN

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:43:14 GMT

Major new features of RQDA-0.1-6:
GUI:
* GUI for file-organization (e.g searching, categorization etc.).
* GUI for settings (e.g. colors for )

Functions:
* Import a batch of files
* Calculate the relation between two codings, given the coding index
* Gives a summary of coding and inter-code relationship

RQDA-0.1.6 RC3

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:36:56 GMT

Major changes are:
* Add facilitators for organizing files (useful if you have more than dozens of files)
* Search files button
* Improve organization of cases (can open files assigned to the case)
* Add Settings Tab, so user can change settings (e.g. colors for coding) easily
* New function write.FileList() to import files by batch
* Improve pdelete(),list.deleted() and undelete(). New function of CleanProject()
* Add pop-up menus of right-click to makes it easier to use
* Codes and Coding cummary functions: CrossCode(), SummaryCoding()
* Fix bugs.

Features of 0.1.6 is frozen. More test is needed. If there is no big issues are found, I would like to submit it to CRAN. Thanks for your attention.

RQDA-0.1.5 is released

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:34:18 GMT

I am glad to say that the include-0.1.5 is released, I regard it as release candidate version (RC1).

The Data Table has been reorganized (compared to version 0.1.3), so it may not compatible with that of last release. Sorry for inconvenience. It will not change anymore in the coming year. And if it does change, I will provide converter.

The major changes include:
+ Enhancement of portability of the *.rqda file (Data are stored in UTF-8).
+ Facilitators helps to categorize codes,which is key to theory building (I deliberately avoid using tree-like categorization, I think it is confusing sometimes).
+ There is a case category, which is crucial feature to bridge qualitative and quantitative research
+ Search information about selected case from the Internet vis pop-up menu
+ Other minor improvements and bug-fixes.

For more information, please check out the project home-page: http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/

Feedback, comments and suggestions are all welcome.

Release of beta version of RQDA

wincent@users.r-forge.r-project.org (HUANG RONGGUI) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:08:02 GMT

RDQA is a package for Qualitative Data Analysis.It includes a number of standard Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis features.

By the GUI, it can:
# Import documents from plain text
# Support non-English documents, Simplified Chinese Character is well-tested under Windows
# Character-level coding using codes
# Memos of documents and codes
# Retrieval of coding
# Single-file (*.rqda) format, which is basically SQLite database
# Temporary deletion of files and codes

By R functions, it can:
# Show the temporary deletion files and codes
# Undo the temporary deletion
# Permanently erase the temporary deletion

There are lots of works ahead, but the current version is workable for basic QDA.