Imports data from *.CSV files created with HTMLQ or FlashQ softwares for Q-sort administration.
import.htmlq(filename, ...)
a file with extension *.CSV (see full description of the file below in References).
further arguments to be passed to read.csv2
.
Extracts the raw data of a Q methodology study from the native format saved in both FlashQ and HTMLQ. Returns a list with two objects.
The first object contains a data frame with items as rows and Q-sorts as columns, ready to be used in qmethod
. It sets the Q-sort names to the values in the column 'uid' or else in 'sid'.
The second object contains the additional data collected. Columns npos
, nneu
and nneg
have the number of items allocated to the groups of 'positive', 'neutral', and 'negative' respectively. Columns which name start with comment*
and form*
contain further information introduced by the respondent. Columns which name start with dur*
contain the time that the respondent spent in each screen. Column datetime
contains the data stamp when the Q-sort was responded.
Hackert, Christian and Braehler, Gernot, 2007. FlashQ, Available at: http://www.hackert.biz/flashq
Oschlies, Johannes and Killing, Marvin, 2015. HTMLQ, Available at: https://github.com/aproxima/htmlq