Package: theoryforge 0.6.0

theoryforge: Systematic Theory Development

Provides a rigorous, reproducible workflow for building, developing and testing scientific theories represented as versioned, machine-checkable objects. Functions read and validate theory objects, score them against a versioned rigour checklist, screen constructs for lexical redundancy, and emit byte-identical diagram intermediate representations. The package is the feature-parity twin of a 'Python' package of the same name, with behaviour pinned by a shared specification so the two implementations produce identical verdicts.

Authors:Pablo Bernabeu [aut, cre]

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# Install 'theoryforge' in R:

install.packages('theoryforge', repos = c('https://pablobernabeu.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/pablobernabeu/theoryforge/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://pablobernabeu.github.io

On CRAN:

3.02 score 21 scripts 320 downloads 35 exports 2 dependencies

Last updated from:d40438a49c. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel	OK	129
source / vignettes	OK	192
linux-release	OK	112
macos-release	OK	121
macos-oldrel	OK	76
windows-devel	OK	96
windows-release	OK	85
windows-oldrel	OK	88
wasm-release	OK	98

Exports:tf_add_alternative tf_add_assumption tf_add_construct tf_add_prediction tf_add_proposition tf_appraise_amendment tf_check tf_compile_sem tf_diagram tf_dossier tf_embedding_redundancy tf_example_names tf_example_path tf_fetch_corpus tf_implications tf_jaccard tf_landscape tf_lit_diagram tf_litmap tf_new_evidence_dois tf_osf_push tf_preregister tf_read tf_read_corpus tf_redundancy_check tf_render_diagram tf_render_report tf_report tf_set_formal_model tf_severity tf_simulate tf_theory tf_tokens tf_validate tf_write

Dependencies:jsonlite yaml

Building, checking and diagramming a theory

Building a theory | Checking rigour | Screening for redundant constructs | Diagramming | Simulation

Rendered fromtheoryforge.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-09-01
Started: 2026-09-01

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

Package: theoryforge 0.6.0

theoryforge: Systematic Theory Development

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