cognitivemapr

Cognitive Mapping (CM) is a method specifically designed to study belief systems as espoused by individuals or organisations and has several advantages over other methods. The goal of cognitivemapr is to reduce the initial investment currently needed to start using the method. The functions in the package allow you to conduct a CM analysis similar to that conducted in the following publication: Van Esch, Femke A.W.J., Snellens, Jeroen F.A. (2024). ‘How to ’measure’ Ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies’. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(2), 428-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2022.2155215

Installation

You can install the development version of cognitivemapr from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Fesch-star/cognitivemapr")

Dependencies

Installing the package (above) will install the package dependencies:

• knitr
• readr
• rmarkdown
• testthat
• dplyr
• igraph
• tibble

Tutorials

Running the functions in the cognitivemapr package requires your data to be compiled into an edge and nodelists.

• For an instruction on the formatting requirements, see the Preprocessing edge and nodelist tutorial. This tutorial also provides an explanation on how to use the three functions in the package that may help you reformat your data.

• For more information regarding the analytical functions in the package, please refer to the Tutorial on cognitivemapr analysis functions

Contributing

We are very happy with any suggestions or contributions to improve the package. Read the contributing guidelines for instructions.

Authors & Acknowledgements

The cognitivemapr package was created by Femke van Esch and Jelle Treep with contributions of Neha Moopen and Jeroen Snellens.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License

Citation

Please cite this project as follows:

@software{van_Esch_cognitivemapr_Functions_for,
author = {van Esch, Femke and Treep, Jelle and Moopen, Neha and Snellens, Jeroen},
license = {GPL-3.0},
title = {{cognitivemapr: Functions for Cognitive Mapping Analysis}},
url = {https://github.com/Fesch-star/cognitivemapr}
}