QCAGUI

The package QCAGUI continues and complements the package QCA with a graphical user interface written in Javascript, using the package shiny. The interface is cross-platform and opens in a webpage which communicates with R via a local web server. Every click in the interface is reactively transformed into a suitable R command, the result being printed in an output dialog which mimics the R console. In addition to QCA functionality, the interface also provides XY plots and Venn diagrams up to 7 causal conditions, a data browser and various other dialogs to recode and calibrate data.

QCAGUI contains an extensive set of functions to perform Qualitative Comparative Analysis: crisp sets (csQCA), temporal (tQCA), multi-value (mvQCA), fuzzy sets (fsQCA), and even coincidence analysis (CNA).

QCA is a methodology that bridges the qualitative and quantitative divide in social science research. It uses a boolean algorithm that results in a minimal causal combination which explains a given phenomenon.

Installation

To install the stable version from CRAN, simply run the following from an R console:

install.packages("QCAGUI")

To install the latest development builds directly from GitHub, run this instead:

if (!require("devtools"))
  install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dusadrian/QCAGUI")

License

The package QCAGUI is licensed under the GPLv3, with additional licences for external libraries (see files in the inst directory for additional details)