Systematic Theory Development

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Documentation for package ‘theoryforge’ version 0.6.0

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
• Package NEWS.

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tf_add_alternative	Add an alternative theory (BUILDING mode)
tf_add_assumption	Add an auxiliary assumption (BUILDING mode)
tf_add_construct	Add a construct to a theory (BUILDING mode)
tf_add_prediction	Add a prediction to a theory (BUILDING mode)
tf_add_proposition	Add a proposition to a theory (BUILDING mode)
tf_appraise_amendment	Appraise an amendment as progressive, degenerating, or neutral
tf_check	Compute the rigour checklist report
tf_compile_sem	Compile a theory to lavaan model syntax
tf_diagram	Render a diagram intermediate representation
tf_dossier	Render a theory audit dossier (Markdown)
tf_embedding_redundancy	Embedding-based pairwise construct-redundancy screen
tf_example_names	Names of the packaged example files
tf_example_path	Path to a packaged example file
tf_fetch_corpus	Build a corpus from the OpenAlex API (network call)
tf_implications	Derive a theory's implied conditional independencies
tf_jaccard	Jaccard similarity of two token sets
tf_landscape	Map a theory and its alternatives onto a literature landscape (deterministic)
tf_litmap	Bibliometric map of a literature corpus (deterministic)
tf_lit_diagram	Render a literature-layer diagram intermediate representation
tf_new_evidence_dois	DOIs not already cited by a theory (deterministic)
tf_osf_push	Deposit a theory's audit dossier to OSF storage
tf_preregister	Render a preregistration document
tf_read	Read a theory object from a YAML or JSON file
tf_read_corpus	Read a literature corpus from a YAML or JSON file
tf_redundancy_check	Pairwise lexical similarity of construct definitions
tf_render_diagram	Render a diagram in the viewer or as SVG
tf_render_report	Write a Quarto report for a theory
tf_report	Render the rigour report as a string
tf_set_formal_model	Set the formal model (BUILDING mode)
tf_severity	Per-prediction risk and computed severity
tf_simulate	Simulate a theory's construct network as a linear dynamical system
tf_theory	Start a new, empty theory object (BUILDING mode entry point)
tf_tokens	Tokenise a string into a set of content tokens
tf_validate	Validate a theory object
tf_write	Write a theory object to YAML or JSON