Version 1.0-5 o Improved version of the C code for removing redundants, increasing the speed of the eqmcc() function o superSubset() and pof() now accepts "suf" (along with "sufficiency") and "nec" (along with "necessity") o More flexible pof() function, now accepting an outcome vector as well as a name of the outcome set o Multiple solutions in factorize() are now correctly numbered o Minor corrections to the C code, in view of the upcoming R 3.0.0 version Version 1.0-4 o Speed considerably increased for functions superSubset() and truthTable() o New argument "all.sol" for functions eqmcc() and solveChart() (thanks to Michael Baumgartner) o Bug fix in function eqmcc(); condition names in uppercase letters not treated correctly (thanks to Michael Baumgartner) o Bug fix in function truthTable(); case names not assigned correctly under some circumstances (thanks to Martin Gasser) o Function truthTable() now also calculates number of cases in remainder configurations o Arguments in function factorize() renamed Version 1.0-3 o Bug fixes related to printing Version 1.0-2 o PRI scores for arguments relation = "necessity" and neg.out = TRUE in function superSubset() corrected o New argument "neg.out" in functions truthTable() and eqmcc() Version 1.0-1 o Bug fix; printing of solution with only one term prevented Version 1.0-0 o QCA package now ready for fuzzy sets o Functions eqmcc() and truthTable() extensively reworked for compatibility with fuzzy sets o Function eqmcc() automatically determines conditions and outcome when fed with truth table object (of class "tt") o New function pof() computes parameters of fit for variety of input options o New function findTh() finds thresholds for crisp sets calibrations o New function calibrate() recodes base variables into crisp and fuzzy sets o New function superSubset() for analysing necessity and sufficiency relations o New logical argument "rowdom" in function eqmcc() controls application of row dominance principle o Truth table columns "freq0" and "freq1" dropped; columns "incl" and "PRI" added o Truth tables can now be sorted using argument sort.by o Function truthTable() now returns raw truth table with numerical columns, plus new component with recoded data if fuzzy sets used o Functions prettyTable() and createString() now internalized o Function findPrimes() is now findSubsets() o New printing methods for PI charts - objects of class "pic", parameters of fit - class "pof", superSubset() results - class "ss", allExpressions() - class"aE" and factorization results - class "fctr" o Function qmcc() now phased out and completely replaced by function eqmcc() o Numerous other bug fixes and improvements Version 0.6-5 o Functions qmcc() and eqmcc() now also return (invisibly) PI chart and initial configurations Version 0.6-4 o Functions qmcc() and eqmcc() now return invisible list with three components: - minimized PIs - number of k PIs necessary to cover all initial causal combinations in PI chart - final solution(s) o Redundant code from function verify.data() removed o Changed error message on failure to solve PI chart (thanks to Juha Järvi) Version 0.6-3 o Bug fix in function factorize(); matrix dropped dimensions Version 0.6-2 o Function factorize() modified, argument "use.letters" replaced by "splitmethod" o Improved documentation and citations o Function findPrimes() improved, empty prime implicants eliminated (first line in implicant matrix) o Bug fix in function findSubsets(); incorrect calculations for the case of multi-value data Version 0.6-1 o Minor improvements to findPrimes() and findSubsets(), their first argument "noflevels" now must be specifically declared in the higher dimension matrix o Fixed a small bug in eqmcc() that prevented correct multi-value minimization when excluding the remainders (thanks to Damien Bol for pointing that) o Argument "uplow" in eqmcc() is now TRUE by default Version 0.6-0 o Function eqmcc() now accepts multi-value data o New argument "uplow" in function eqmcc() for printing solutions in upper/lower letters o Function findPrimes() improved to accommodate multi-value data o Function createString() improved to accommodate multi-value data o Function writePrimeimp() improved to accommodate multi-value data o Function demoChart() modified; argument "use.letters" replaced by "splitmethod" o Function prettyString() completely changed using native function strwrap() o Function prettyString() now internalized o Function qmcc() and eqmcc() changed accordingly using new function prettyString() o New artifical dataset "MV" to test multi-value data Version 0.5-4 o Eliminated error message if there is only one configuration to explain (thanks to Burt Monroe) Version 0.5-3 o Bug fix in function truthTable(); columns incorrectly arranged with respect to outcome values o Function truthTable() now allows multi-value data, both in conditions and outcome Version 0.5-2 o Bug fix in function createMatrix() regarding multi-value data o Bug fix in function solveChart(); error when PI chart was too large Version 0.5-1 o Function descriptions updated and cleaned o Functions is.tt() and print.tt() now accessible by user o Bug fix in function rowDominance2(); matrix dropped dimensions o Bug fix in function eqmcc() for complete truth tables (thanks to Ronggui Huang) Version 0.5-0 o Function truthTable() now returns object of class "tt" o New internal functions is.tt() and print.tt() o Functions qmcc() and eqmcc() now accept truth tables as well as raw data Version 0.4-9 o Functions findPrimes() and findSubsets() now at user-level o Function factorize() improved; previous version did not detect some combinations Version 0.4-8 o New internal function findPrimes() Version 0.4-7 o Bug fix in rowDominance2() o Function eqmcc() improved o Function truthTable() slightly improved o New internal function findSubsets() Version 0.4-6 o Function rowDominance2() reworked o Function shortqca() renamed to eqmcc(); faster by a factor of at least 2 Version 0.4-5 o New experimental function shortqca(); many times faster than qmcc() for large number of causal conditions (> 11) and very low memory consumption; can easily work with 16 or 17 causal conditions; looks very promising, especially for multi-value data Version 0.4-3 o Bug fix in function qmcc(); matrix dropped dimensions upon subsetting Version 0.4-2 o Bug fix in function qmcc(); data was not correctly subset o Bug fix in function qmcc() involving the argument "show.cases" o Argument "use.letters" added to function demoChart() o Bug fix in function verify.truthTable() Version 0.4-1 o Namespace for the package added o Function base3rows() completely rewritten, now much faster o Function createMatrix() reworked; now much faster for the same number of values in each condition o Argument "diffmat" added to function qmcc(); users can now choose to generate differences matrix or not: speed or low memory consumption Version 0.4-0 o Function qmcc() reworked; substantially lower memory consumption; now works with up to 15 conditions in 1GB RAM o New function base3rows() o Bug fix in function writeSolution() Version 0.3-5 o Function qmcc() reworked; does no longer possess argument "tt"; now works reasonably with up to 13 conditions o Function truthTable() reworked Version 0.3-1 o New function rowDominance() eases solving of large prime implicant charts Version 0.3-0 o New function getRow() returns combination of levels for specific row numbers o Bug fixes (caused by changes in version 0.2-6) o Function createMatrix() now accepts multi-value sets o Function qmcc() now 20 times faster; works reasonably with up to 11 conditions o Function createChart() completely redesigned; now internal o Function createChart() now called demoChart() Version 0.2-6 o QCA does not depend on package "cluster" anymore Version 0.2-5 o Documentation fixes o Function prettyTable() almost completely rewritten o Minor changes to function truthTable() o QCA does not depend on package "combinat" anymore o New function sortMatrix() in internal functions o Argument verifications now part of internal functions o New function readTosmana() for reading Tosmana's XML data files Version 0.2-2 o Function allExpr() completely redesigned - now allExpressions() and made faster o Set up internal functions; qmcc now less cluttered o New user-level function solveChart() - pulled out of function qmcc() Version 0.2-1 o New function createMatrix() creates base matrix for the truth table o New function base3rows() o Bug fix in writeSolution() Version 0.2-0 o New function factorize() finds all common factors of literals in Boolean products