R Observatory: Metrics for QCA version 3.25

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

QCA

3.25Package record

Qualitative Comparative Analysis

6packages dependsuggested by 2

55.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adrian DusaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An extensive set of functions to perform Qualitative Comparative Analysis: crisp sets ('csQCA'), temporal ('tQCA'), multi-value ('mvQCA') and fuzzy sets ('fsQCA'). 'QCA' is a methodology that bridges the qualitative and quantitative divide in social science research. It uses a Boolean minimization algorithm, resulting in a minimal causal configuration associated with a given phenomenon.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("QCA", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("dusadrian/QCA")

Development version from dusadrian/QCA. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-qca

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-QCA

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-QCA

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-01
WARNING6 OK, 7 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Websitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

How these are measured

Downloads

55.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,626 · ~152/day · ~4.6K/mo

QCA Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5K30 days

13.8K90 days

55.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

dusadrian/qca ↗Account: dusadrian

7Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

59Commits

1Commit identities

59 commits · Last activity 2026-09-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.25.7, ahead of CRAN 3.25 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dusadrian/qca on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing QCA adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 274 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: venn 105 KB, admisc 97 KB, declared 72 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0admisc

Imports (3)

methodsdeclared venn

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SetMethods ThSQCA braQCA TSQCA QCAcluster qcaERT

Suggests, most downloaded first

admisc venn

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Adrian Dusa

Alrik Thiem

Author · added in 1.0-0

from version 1.0-0 up to version 1.1-3

Ciprian Paduraru

Contributor · added in 3.7

Listed in earlier versions (7)

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Dmitry Baranovskiy