QVM

  • N. Sofía Huerta-Pacheco
Questionnaires Validation Module 

University of Salamanca 
QVM is a new R package containing functions to run the questionnaires validation module.

This package is a preliminary module including different statistical techniques.

To install the package copy  and run the following commands into the R console. The package runs in 
all operating systems.

 

WINDOWS / LINUX 

1 
#Comand to install
install.packages("gWidgetstcltk")
install.packages("QVM")
2 
#Call to library
library(QVM)
3 
#View the description 
library(help=QVM)
4 
#View the requirements 
?QVM

 

MAC OS X 

1
2 
#Install XQuartz
The use of X11 (including tcltk) requires XQuartz
3 
#Restart the computer
4 
#Comand to install
install.packages("gWidgetstcltk")
install.packages("QVM")
5 
#Call to library
library(QVM)
6 
#View the description 
library(help=QVM)
7 
#View the requirements 
?QVM

 

EXAMPLE

1 
#Call to library
library(QVM)
2 
#Call the interface
 QVM()
3 
#Choose a data set (delimited csv for comma)
File - Open 
P1
4 
#Use of sections
Method - Descriptive 
P2

 

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DOCUMENTATION

CITATION

 - To cite package ‘QVM’ in publications use:

Nery Sofia Huerta-Pacheco, Purificacion Vicente-Galindo, Mercedes Sanchez-Barba and 
Maria Purificacion Galindo-Villardon (2016). QVM: Questionnaires Validation Module. R
package version 0.1.1. http://www.uv.mx/personal/nehuerta/qvm

- A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

 @Manual{,
 title = {QVM: Questionnaires Validation Module},
 author = {Nery Sofia Huerta-Pacheco and Purificacion Vicente-Galindo and 
 Mercedes Sanchez-Barba and Maria Purificacion Galindo-Villardon},
 year = {2016},
 note = {R package version 0.1.1},
 url = {http://www.uv.mx/personal/nehuerta/qvm},
 }

ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated from the package 
DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing.
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