R Observatory: Metrics for TSQCA version 1.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TSQCA

1.3.3Package record

DEPRECATED: Threshold Sweep Extensions for Qualitative Comparative Analysis

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

38.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yuki ToyodaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

DEPRECATED: This package has been superseded by 'ThSQCA'. Please use install.packages('ThSQCA') instead. Provides threshold sweep methods for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Implements Condition Threshold Sweep-Single (CTS-S), Condition Threshold Sweep-Multiple (CTS-M), Outcome Threshold Sweep (OTS), and Dual Threshold Sweep (DTS) for systematic exploration of threshold calibration effects on crisp-set QCA results. These methods extend traditional robustness approaches by treating threshold variation as an exploratory tool for discovering causal structures. Also provides Fiss (2011) doi:10.5465/amj.2011.60263120 core/peripheral condition classification via compute_fiss_core() and generate_fiss_chart(), enabling four-symbol configuration charts that distinguish core conditions (present in both parsimonious and intermediate solutions) from peripheral conditions (intermediate only). Built on top of the 'QCA' package by Dusa (2019) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75668-4, with function arguments following 'QCA' conventions. Based on set-theoretic methods by Ragin (2008) doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226702797.001.0001 and established robustness protocols by Rubinson et al. (2019) doi:10.1177/00491241211036158.

Changes in 1.3.3

*Release date: 2026-05-XX*

Deprecation Notice

**TSQCA has been superseded by ThSQCA.**

Migration

```r

Replace

install.packages("TSQCA")

library(TSQCA)

With

install.packages("ThSQCA")

library(ThSQCA)

```

Show all changes in 1.3.3Hide the rest of the changes in 1.3.3

All functions (otSweep, ctSweepS, ctSweepM, dtSweep, etc.)

are identical. Only the package name changes.

TSQCA will remain on CRAN for backward compatibility but will not

receive further updates. Please migrate to ThSQCA.

Background

Reviewers noted that TSQCA risks being misread as Time-Series QCA.

The new name ThSQCA unambiguously reflects the Threshold-Sweep methodology.

---

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("TSQCA", 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("im-research-yt/ThSQCA")

Development version from im-research-yt/ThSQCA. 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-tsqca

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-TSQCA

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-TSQCA

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: 6.0 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.3

READMEYes · 1,094 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.3.3Citation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 56 (35 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 60%12 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (2)

TSQCA Reproducible Code (English) HTML
TSQCA Tutorial (English) HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,761 · ~10/day · ~312/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31730 days

85490 days

3.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

im-research-yt/thsqca ↗Account: im-research-yt

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

28Commits

1Commit identities

28 commits · Last activity 2026-10-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-04-15 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/im-research-yt/thsqca on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TSQCA adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 727 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: QCA 453 KB, venn 105 KB, admisc 97 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (1)

QCA

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Yuki Toyoda

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2026)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Funder

KAKENHI Grant Number JP20K01998

Releases (8)

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1.3.3Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.2
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2026-03-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
compute_fiss_core, generate_fiss_chart, print_fiss_summary
1.3.1
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2026-02-18 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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1.2.0
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1.1.0
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2026-01-17 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2026-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
config_chart_from_paths, config_chart_multi_solutions, extract_terms, format_qca_solution, format_qca_solutions, format_qca_term, generate_config_chart, generate_cross_threshold_chart, generate_report, generate_solution_note, identify_epi
0.1.2
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2026-01-07
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-07
Total releases: 8 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 143 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("TSQCA")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.17899390.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TSQCA version 1.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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