Bugfix release 0.3.6

Sunday, 23 April 2006 Tfry

Much sooner than expected, a new release of RKWard has been made available for download. Most importantly, contrary to our expectations of one week ago, RKWard 0.3.5 will not work with the upcoming R 2.3.0, so a new release was needed quickly.

Despite the limited time, a number of further bug-fixes and small improvements have made it into the new release. Here's a mostly complete list of changes:

  • Compilation / Installation:
    • remove configure options --with-r-share and --with-r-doc (obsoleted by improved wrapper script)
    • some fixes for R 2.3.0
  • Bugfixes:
    • clean up output of require (quietly=FALSE)
    • middle mouse pastes selection, not global clipboard in the console, as expected
    • make Ctrl+V work in the console
    • fix bug in scatterplot plugin
    • don't try to show higher numeric precision than is actually available
    • use KDE standard icons in object lists (need to be replaced by customized icons in the long run)
    • check for and handle some strange R parse errors that could crash rkward
    • several fixes to the distributions plugins
  • Improvements / features:
    • make Ctrl+C/copy work in output and help windows
    • allow empty input in readline ("R backend requests information") dialog
    • process R X11 events while modal dialogs (such as "R backend requests information") are shown
    • pressing Cancel in readline ("R backend requests information") dialog interrupts the command
    • prevent R-Object listviews (Varselector, Workspace Browser) from growing excessively wide
    • allow deletion of several rows at once in the data.frame editor and fix some bugs regarding deletion of rows
    • make Ctrl+C copy work in the code window of plugins
    • remove one level of menu nesting for save/load R Objects plugins
  • Internal changes:
    • remove debian dir from source distribution again (for better packaging)

As usual, we'd be interested to read your feedback on the mailing list.

Important Note: RKWard 0.3.6 can be compiled (and of course run) with R 2.1.x, R 2.2.x and the upcoming R 2.3.x. However, when upgrading from R 2.2.x to R 2.3.x, you will have to re-compile and re-install RKWard. Also, if your distribution currently ships a pre-release version of R, chances are, RKWard will not yet work with that version (but you may want to give it a try). You'll have either downgrad to 2.2.x temporarily, or upgrade to the final release of R 2.3.0 once available. To be precise, SVN revision 37824 is the first pre 2.3.0-version of R, RKWard 0.3.6 will work with.

Currently a pre-compiled .deb package of RKWard is provided for R 2.2.x releases. A .deb package compiled for R 2.3.0 will be made available as soon as possible.

We're very sorry about the inconvenience, but unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about it.