A docker image for easily using RQDA. RQDA is an awesome Gtk+ qualitative data analysis tools for R (a "computer-aided qualitative data analysis", CAQDA).
Docker, container, image ?? A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings. (Official doc)
More on docker on Pokyah's blog.
This project find its roots in the fact that RQDA dependencies are not easily available/installed in modern distribution of Linux and R.
This image proposes the last stable version of RQDA (0.2-8) running in Debian 8 (jessie) and R (3.1)
I use this script to run the image :
# Pulling the images
docker pull frdvnw/dockerqda
# Exec the script for running the container
chmod +x RunDockeRQDA.sh
./RunDockeRQDA.sh
#!/bin/bash
XSOCK=/tmp/.X11-unix
XAUTH=/tmp/.docker.xauth
xauth nlist $DISPLAY | sed -e 's/^..../ffff/' | xauth -f $XAUTH nmerge -
sudo docker run -it --volume=$XSOCK:$XSOCK:rw \
--volume=$XAUTH:$XAUTH:rw \
--env="XAUTHORITY=${XAUTH}" \
--env="DISPLAY" \
--name whirl_wheels \
--workdir=/root/ \
--volume=/WHERE/YOU/WANT/IN/YOUR/COMPUTER/dockerqda/:/home/dockerqda/ \
frdvnw/dockerqda:latest
RQDA is available under bsd-license. It was coded by Ronggui HUANG.
Documentations, tutorials, how-tos and other ressources on RQDA can be found on the main website of the project. Devel version of RQDA is in progress on GitHub : https://github.com/Ronggui/RQDA
HUANG Ronggui (2016). RQDA: R-based Qualitative Data Analysis. R package version 0.2-8.
Among references, I used RQDA for two scientific papers :