You can help

There are a lot of ways to help this project, not just as a programmer, but also by providing feedback, writing documentation, translating, creating statistical plugins, or by donating.

Whatever it is that you can contribute, here are some first pointers to help you getting started. As the very first pointer, however: Never shy away from contacting us!

Important starting points for all contributors

RKWard Source Repository: For contributions of all kinds (code, documentation, translations, plugins) it is highly useful to keep track of the current state of development, not only when offical versions are released.
Submitting Patches
Release Schedule

Tracking bugs, tasks and feature suggestions:

Submitting, reviewing or browsing Bugs and Feature Requests
Open Tasks
Feature Plan

Documentation for documentation writers

The sources for this website
Info on the documentation format used in RKWard’s internal documentation (the “Welcome”-pages but also Help pages for individual plugins): https://rkward.kde.org/doc/rkwardplugins/pluginhelp.html

Translators

Getting started with translating RKWard

Developing plugins aka “Statistics Dialogs”

Hands-on tutorial and reference on writing plugins: HTML for online browsing
Automated Plugin Testing

C++-coders

The appendix to our article in the Journal of Statistical Software discusses several aspects of the techical design, and is still mostly relevant: (Abstract, PDF).

Further resources

Mailing list archives

Has something been discussed, before? Check the mailing list archives:

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/rkward-devel/ (RKWard-Devel)
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/rkward-users/ (RKWard-Users)
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/rkward-tracker/ (RKWard-Tracker)

Outdated pages

Really, you should not be reading those, except when thinking about how to replace these:

External trackers

There are a number of further places where bugs / issues are reported. While these trackers are distribution-specific, many of the issues reported there concern RKWard in general. Therefore it makes sense to a least check these once in a while:

Reviews / comparisons

For some hints on what may need improvements / what other software does better. This list is not comprehensive, please tell us, if you have something to add:

Bob Muenchen: https://r4stats.com/2022/06/20/updated-comparison-of-r-guis/ (Updated from time to time, version linked, here, may or may not be the latest)
Gene Shackman: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105959