qapproach: The Q Approach to Consensus Building

Implements a workflow based on Q method to support consensus-building processes. It prepares participant rankings, selects and fits group perspectives, calculates consensus priority scores, validates results by bootstrap resampling, and produces publication-ready figures. The underlying method is described by Geschke et al. (2022) "The Q approach to consensus building: integrating diverse perspectives to guide decision-making" <doi:10.32942/X2F59S>.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: fmsb, igraph, qmethod, withr
Suggests: hues, knitr, magick, pdftools, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-23
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.qapproach (may not be active yet)
Author: Jonas Geschke [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Jonas Geschke <hallo at qapproach.app>
BugReports: https://github.com/JonasGeschke/qapproach/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11518485
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: qapproach results

Documentation:

Reference manual: qapproach.html , qapproach.pdf
Vignettes: A Q Approach to Consensus Building (source)

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