Package index

Core IO

Read, validate and write theory objects.

tf_read()

Read a theory object from a YAML or JSON file

tf_validate()

Validate a theory object

tf_write()

Write a theory object to YAML or JSON

Builder (BUILDING mode)

Construct a theory incrementally with provenance tracking.

tf_theory()

Start a new, empty theory object (BUILDING mode entry point)

tf_add_construct()

Add a construct to a theory (BUILDING mode)

tf_add_proposition()

Add a proposition to a theory (BUILDING mode)

tf_add_prediction()

Add a prediction to a theory (BUILDING mode)

tf_add_alternative()

Add an alternative theory (BUILDING mode)

tf_add_assumption()

Add an auxiliary assumption (BUILDING mode)

tf_set_formal_model()

Set the formal model (BUILDING mode)

Rigour

Score a theory against the versioned rigour checklist.

tf_check()

Compute the rigour checklist report

tf_report()

Render the rigour report as a string

tf_severity()

Per-prediction risk and computed severity

Redundancy

Deterministic lexical redundancy screen.

tf_tokens()

Tokenise a string into a set of content tokens

tf_jaccard()

Jaccard similarity of two token sets

tf_redundancy_check()

Pairwise lexical similarity of construct definitions

tf_embedding_redundancy()

Embedding-based pairwise construct-redundancy screen

Diagram

Byte-identical diagram intermediate representations, and native rendering.

tf_diagram()

Render a diagram intermediate representation

tf_lit_diagram()

Render a literature-layer diagram intermediate representation

tf_render_diagram()

Render a diagram in the viewer or as SVG

Develop

Lakatosian amendment appraisal.

tf_appraise_amendment()

Appraise an amendment as progressive, degenerating, or neutral

Testing and review

Preregistration, SEM compilation and the audit dossier.

tf_preregister()

Render a preregistration document

tf_compile_sem()

Compile a theory to lavaan model syntax

tf_dossier()

Render a theory audit dossier (Markdown)

Simulation

Integrate the construct network as a dynamical system.

tf_simulate()

Simulate a theory's construct network as a linear dynamical system

Reporting and deposit

Render a report and deposit it.

tf_render_report()

Write a Quarto report for a theory

tf_osf_push()

Deposit a theory's audit dossier to OSF storage

Literature layer

Bibliometric mapping of a literature corpus.

tf_read_corpus()

Read a literature corpus from a YAML or JSON file

tf_litmap()

Bibliometric map of a literature corpus (deterministic)

tf_landscape()

Map a theory and its alternatives onto a literature landscape (deterministic)

tf_fetch_corpus()

Build a corpus from the OpenAlex API (network call)

tf_new_evidence_dois()

DOIs not already cited by a theory (deterministic)