RKWard 0.4.2 released

Monday, 4 December 2006 Tfry

A new release of RKWard is available for download, today. The new version has seen many small changes all over the place. Among the more noteable additions are some new and improved plugins, new and updated translations, and also R X11 device windows are now integrated into the rkward GUI with some added functionality.

The list of changes in 0.4.2:

  • Bugfixes / corrections:
    • fix help menu for detached windows
    • fixed: selecting Window->Close in a detached window would only close the internal view, not the window
    • when detaching a window, give it a more reasonable size
    • do not open the same script url twice (instead the corresponding window is raised on the second attempt)
    • fixed: when closing a detached script editor window, you would not be asked to save changes (if any)
    • fixed: occasional crash when re-attaching a script editor window
    • fix bug in rk.get.label ()
    • properly support active bindings in globalenv ()
    • if not started in a tty, spawn a konsole. R will go into non-interactive mode otherwise
    • in script editor, do not provide symbol name completion while in comments
    • spelling corrections in distributions menu
  • Translations:
    • new translations: Greek, Catalan
    • updated translations: German, French
  • Feature additions and improvements:
    • code generated by scatterplot plugin is simplified somewhat
    • add comment headers to the sections of commands produced by plugins
    • if a user command results in the output html file to be modified, auto-refresh output
    • add RMB menu to script editor windows
    • add options "clear" and "configure" in the console RMB menu, and the command log RMB menu
    • add option to save workplace layout not per workspace, but at the end of the session
    • add options ("printcmd") to settings
    • R X11 device windows are now managed by rkward, with the following initial features:
      • R X11 device windows: attach to / detach from workplace (they start detached)
      • R X11 device windows: toggle between normal resize mode and (settable) fixed size with scrollbars
      • R X11 device windows: menu options to copy / print / duplicate / save / activate devices
    • added basic plot facility for ECDF (Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function) (menu plots)
    • added ptukey and qtukey (Studentized Range Distribution (Tukey)) (menu distributions)
    • reorganized "Descriptive Statistics" plugin to use tabs for better usability
    • added constant for mad in descriptive statistics plugin

Obligatory Douglas Adams reference for this version number: RKWard won't give you the answer to all questions, yet, but it does compute 6*7 reliably. So try the new release, and send your feedback to the mailing list.