Control Panel
Work Mode
Actions
Document Viewer
Code Management
Code Color
Code List
Category Management
Defined Categories
Coded Extract Management
Management Tools
Highlight Guide
Visualization
- Gradients indicate multiple codes
- Hover shows applied codes
- Each row = one code per fragment
Editing
- Deselect mode to remove
- Multiple selection available
- Full export to Excel
Settings
Visual Options
Filters
Filter analysis by descriptor valuesDownload Settings
Code Distribution
Export
Export Network
Co-occurrence Network and Centrality Analysis
AI Analysis Settings
OpenAI Settings
Code Dictionary
AI Analysis Results
Instructions
1. Make sure you have documents uploaded in the 'Document' tab
2. Enter your OpenAI API Key
3. Upload a code dictionary with columns: Category, Code, Definition
4. Run the analysis and review the results
5. If satisfied, integrate the results into your manual analysis
Semantic Analysis Settings
Settings
This module uses the OpenAI API to generate embeddings and semantic analysis.
Embedding model: text-embedding-3-small Enter your OpenAI API Key in the 'AI Analysis' tabSemantic Analysis Tools
Requirements
1. Have coded fragments (use 'AI Analysis' or code manually)
2. Generate embeddings (uses internal tokens automatically)
3. Explore the semantic analysis tools
Semantic Clustering
Automatically groups similar fragments
Similarity Detection
Finds similar fragments with different codes
2D Visualization
Visualizes the semantic distribution of fragments
Coherence Analysis
Evaluates the semantic homogeneity of each code
LLM Validation (Virtual Expert Panel)
A language model evaluates the quality of your coding
Figure Download Settings
Semantic Analysis Results
Report Settings
Information
Generates an automatic interpretive report based on the analyses performed.
Uses the GPT-4.1 model from OpenAI to generate interpretive reports.
Requirements
- Have coded fragments (manual or AI)
- For semantic analysis: have generated embeddings
Generated Report
Save Project
Load Project
Restore Data
Load a previously saved project to continue working.
How to Cite RCualiText
Academic Recognition
APA 7th Edition Citation
Software Information
Important
If you use RCualiText in your research or academic work, we appreciate you including this citation to acknowledge the author's work and allow other researchers to access this tool.
New Memo
Memo List
Settings
Word Cloud
KWIC
Results
Document Descriptors
Add demographic or contextual variables to each document for filtering and cross-analysis.
Settings
Matrix Coding Query
Cross-tabulation of codes by documents
Framework Matrix
Cases (documents) x Themes (codes) with extracts
Results
Quotation Manager
Merge / Split Codes
Merge
Split
Export Codebook
Download the complete codebook with definitions, colors, and examples
AI Suggestions
Code Groups
Document Groups
Research Questions
Topic Modeling
Discover latent topics using LDA
Results
Sentiment Analysis
Analyze sentiment of coded fragments using GPT
Named Entity Recognition
Extract persons, locations, organizations using GPT
Intercoder Reliability
Compare coding between two coders
Results
Confusion Matrix
Audit Trail
About RCualiText
Advanced Qualitative Analysis
RCualiText is an advanced application for qualitative text coding that allows you to load documents (.txt and .docx), define codes and categories, highlight extracts of interest, and visualize code frequencies and co-occurrence networks.
With RCualiText you can interactively manage your code list, group them into categories, export your highlights to Excel, and graphically analyze your qualitative data through modern visualizations and network analysis.
Smart Highlighting
- Select Mode: Apply codes to selected fragments
- Deselect Mode: Remove specific codes with one click
- Accumulative Mode: Multiple codes per fragment
- Visual Gradients: Multiple codes with visual effects
- Tooltips: Information on mouse hover
- Export: Detailed data to Excel
Deselection Guide
- Activate 'Deselect' mode in the control panel
- Click directly on the highlighted text
- Select which specific code to remove
- Return to 'Select' mode to continue
Dr. José Ventura-León
Multimedia Input
Audio/video -> OpenAI Whisper. Images -> tesseract OCR (requires tesseract R package).
Transcript (timestamps)
Coders
Document Lock
Active locks
Assignments
Side-by-side comparison / reconciliation
Coder A
Coder B
Agreement summary
Conflicts (same fragment, different codes)
Resolve conflict
Boolean Query Builder
Matrix Query (descriptor x code)
Flow between document groups -> categories -> codes.
Co-occurrence heatmap of codes.
Hierarchical clustering of codes based on co-occurrence.
Coding activity over time (timestamp axis).
Free-form draggable network of codes, categories, memos.
Create link
All links
Navigate
Click on a link to jump to the target.Link graph
Auto-save
Snapshots
Codebook diff (between two snapshots)
Added codes
Removed codes
Renamed / color-changed
Embedding cache (SQLite)
text2vec KWIC index
Lazy loading
Chi-square (descriptor x code)
QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) export
Appearance
Keyboard shortcuts
- 1 - 9 Apply code #1 through #9 (sorted alphabetically) to current selection
- Ctrl + S Save snapshot
- Ctrl + . Toggle select/deselect mode
- ? Show shortcuts overlay
Shortcuts are active globally.