SCAtools: Direction-Aware Sufficiency Condition Analysis

Provides a direction-aware interface for analysing bivariate sufficiency statements from empty-space frontier patterns. Logical sufficiency directions (high or low levels of a condition and outcome) are kept separate from the physical location of the empty corner in the scatter plot. Computation is delegated to version 5 of the 'NCA' package based on Dul (2016) <doi:10.1177/1094428115584005>, using the contraposition between necessity and sufficiency. Threshold tables are computed in actual units and converted by this package, so percentage, percentile and standard-deviation scales follow one stated reporting convention in every sufficiency direction. Includes tidy summaries, threshold rules, plots, random-data generation, permutation tests, and power analysis. An ordinary least-squares line can be drawn beside the frontier as a central-tendency reference; it is an average-effect summary and never a component of a sufficiency claim. An empty-space pattern alone does not establish causality or deterministic sufficiency.

Version: 0.4.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), NCA (≥ 5.0.2), stats, utils
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SCAtools (may not be active yet)
Author: Young Chan [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Young Chan <youngchanresearcher at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/youngchanresearcher/SCAtools/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/youngchanresearcher/SCAtools
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: SCAtools citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: SCAtools results

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Reference manual: SCAtools.html , SCAtools.pdf

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Package source: SCAtools_0.4.3.tar.gz
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