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