This package implements an open standard for working with qualitative data, as such, it has two parts: a file format/convention and this R package that facilitates working with .rock files.
The .rock files are plain text files where a number of conventions are used to add metadata. Normally these are the following conventions:
The smallest 'codeable unit' is called an utterance, and utterances are separated by newline characters (i.e. every line of the file is an utterance);
Codes are in between double square brackets: [[code1]] and [[code2]];
Hierarchy in inductive code trees can be indicated using the greater than sign (>): [[parent1>child1]];
Utterances can have unique identifiers called 'utterance identifiers' or 'UIDs', which are unique short alphanumeric strings placed in between double square brackets after 'uid:', e.g. [[uid:73xk2q07]];
Deductive code trees can be specified using YAML
rock R Package FunctionsThe most important functions are parse_source() to parse one source and parse_sources()
to parse multiple sources simultaneously. clean_source() and clean_sources() can be used
to clean sources, and prepend_ids_to_source() and prepend_ids_to_sources() can be
used to quickly generate UIDs and prepend them to each utterance in a source.
For analysis, create_cooccurrence_matrix(), collapse_occurrences(), and
collect_coded_fragments() can be used.