For natural language processing and analysis of qualitative text coding structures which provide a way to bind together text and text data are fundamental. The package provides such a structure and accompanying methods in form of R6 objects. The 'rtext' class allows for text handling and text coding (character or regex based) including data updates on text transformations as well as aggregation on various levels. Furthermore, the usage of R6 enables inheritance and passing by reference which should enable 'rtext' instances to be used as back-end for R based graphical text editors or text coding GUIs.