code: Code Text Data

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Code Text Data

Description

Create a reproducible script for coding qualitative text data by sequentially assigning elements of x to specific labels.

Usage

code(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
code(x, similarity = c("stringdist", "embeddings"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'code_list'
code(x, label = NULL, ...)

add_level(x, similarity = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	An object for which a method exists.
...	Additional arguments passed to functions.
similarity	Which method to use to compute similarity between entries. Defaults to "stringdist", which uses stringdistmatrix. Option "embeddings" additionally requires passing the named argument "model_path", which should point to a LLM downloaded with download_huggingface.
label	Label to assign to elements identified via numeric indexing, passed via ....

Value

A list with class code_list.

Functions

• add_level(): In case of nested coding, use add_level() to add a level of coding to a code_list object.

Examples

x <- c("autonomy [satisfaction] increases",
"competence [satisfaction] increases", "relatedness [satisfaction] increases"
, "motivation is more internalized", "motivation is more internalized",
"motivation is more internalized1", "event is more controlling",
"event is more controlling",
"event communicates more effectance information")
coded <- code(x)
coded <- code(coded, "need_satisfaction", 1:3)
coded <- code(coded, "internalization", 1:3)
coded <- code(coded, "functional_significance", 1:3)
coded <- add_level(coded)
coded <- code(coded, "random_level1", 1:2)
coded <- code(coded, "random_level2", 1)
coded

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