RKWard 0.3.4 released

Tuesday, 1 November 2005 Tfry

A new version of RKWard is now available for download. Changes include:

  • Bug fixes:
    • fix installation of standard_plugins.pluginmap
    • make "up"-button work in R-backend repository settings
    • Settings->Command Log->show/raise window working again
    • assorted other bugfixes, including fixes to linkage, fixes for crashes, etc.
  • New features / improvements:
    • real time display of command output in the console
    • automatically scroll command log to the bottom when new lines are added
    • back/forward navigation in help pages
    • can print help pages and output
    • better handling of errors while installing packages
    • allow loading/saving of command history (console commands)
    • allow interrupting current command running in the console via Ctrl+C
    • add "Command stack" window for advanced control of R backend (cancel commands, pause chain, view stack)
    • allow configuration of many R options in Settings->R backend
    • avoid adding incomplete (multi-line) Console commands to the Command Log
  • User interface:
    • less verbose output in command log (removed "issuing command", etc.)
    • help-, output-, and editor-views can be detached to separate windows
    • allow to bypass startup dialog
    • limit number of lines to display in console and command log (user setting)
    • remove menu clutter from help window, and output window
    • add (meaningful) context menu for console
  • Translations:
    • updated French translation
  • Internal / technical changes:
    • include debian-dir in source distribution
    • use KXMLGUI for placing plugins in the menu (mostly an internal change, but menu placement should remain sane, when active window changes, now)
    • modifiy rkward.desktop to always start rkward in a terminal. The backend sometimes behaves strangely, if this is not done
    • use available.packages instead of CRAN.packages (deprecated in R 2.2.0)
    • more code cleanups

Please check out the new release, and tell us what you think on the mailing list.

Note: If you have previously been running version 0.3.3 of RKWard, you may have a bad saved setting for the location of .pluginmap-files. In this case RKWard will complain about missing plugins on startup. In order to fix this, go to Settings->Configure RKWard->Plugins and remove all entries for .pluginmap-files. After that, quit, and restart RKWard. The correct location of the standard plugins should then be autodetected.