NEWS

qcc 3.0

Modification of rules for out-of-control points. A subset of Western Eletric Rules (WER) have been implemented. See qccRules().
All functions in qcc now return an object with associated print, summary, and plot methods.
Several modifications to plot and print appearances. In particular graphs are produced using ggplot2 package and print/summary uses cli package.
Added function describe() to statistically describe variables in a data.frame according to the type.
qccGroups() now has first argument data to extract variables from a data frame.
sd.p() calculation now takes into sizes.
Removed usage of attach/detach from all examples and documentation.
plot.qcc() allows to use as.Date() objects along x-axis
Add option to remove the title from all plots using title = NULL.
Plotting single data values does not issue an error.

Created an html vignette entitled "A quick tour of qcc".
Moved R News paper to documentation.
Removed demos.
Improved appearance of graphs.
Control limits for p and np charts computed based on binomial quantiles (and not on normal approximation).
Control limits for c chart computed based on Poisson quantiles (and not on normal approximation).
Added head.start argument to cusum function.
Implemented OC curves for R and S charts.
Make xbar OC curves when confidence.level is used.
Fix a bug in sd.u
Fix typos in the documentation.
Fix a bug in cex labels.
Add a link in the qcc-package.Rd help page to yhat blog post describing how to implement the Western Eletric Rules (WER).
pareto.chart() function now returns an object of class paretoChart with associated print and plot method.
Included a link in the qcc-package.Rd to R News article.

Bug fix for plotting np-chart with variable sample size.
Pdf files (previously included as vignettes) moved to inst/doc with corresponding index.html.

Added a demo showing how to extend the package by defining a new control chart, i.e. the standardized p chart.
Fix a bug in qcc() to allow a user defined control chart.

Fix a bug in pareto.chart when compute percentages based on quantiles for the right axis. Added the argument plot which if sets to FALSE won't produce the chart but only return a frequency summary table.
Added R-news article as vignette.
Modified the qcc.option() function so changing a parameter in .qcc.options inside a function will make the modification persistent even outside the function environment.
Bug fix in cusum function if a vector is provided as input with sizes > 1 but no std.dev.

Multivariate control charts (T^2, T^2 for individual observations, Ellipse chart for bivariate data) have been included.
sd.xbar.one now allows to estimate the standard deviation by using the moving range (default as in the previous versions) or the method suggested by Ryan (2000) using the scaled std deviation of the observations.
cusum() and ewma() have been rewritten to be called directly with data and arguments. No need to create a qcc object before.
Added a NAMESPACE, exporting all functions with names not starting with a dot ..

Redefined std.dev argument in qcc() function. It now allows to give a numerical value or a sting identifying a method for estimating the standard deviation of a continuous process variable. Thus, these methods are only available to "xbar", "R", and "S" charts. For details see help(qcc). Functions involved in such change are std.xbar(), std.R(), std.S(), whereas the other sd.* functions only have "..." argument added.
If xbar chart is needed and the number of observations is larger than 25 use "RMSDF" method for computing process standard deviation.
Fixed bug in highlighting violating runs and out of control points when chart.all = FALSE.
Changed background color for Control Charts.
Changed position of control limit labels in Shewhat and CusSum charts.

Added functions to plot Shewhart g chart (geometric distribution): stats.g(), sd.g(), limits.g().
Contributed by Greg Snow ([email protected]).
Bug fix in violating.runs()
Changes in qcc.options():
- run.length set by default at 7 (it was 5 previously);
- font.stats and cex.stats control font and character expansion used to draw text at the bottom of control charts.
Added qcc_Rnews.pdf paper in doc directory