RKWard 0.4.6 is out

Thursday, 15 February 2007 Tfry

Version 0.4.6 of RKWard is available for download.

Most prominently, this release features many new plugins, making more of the power of R available via graphical dialogs. A big thank you goes to all volunteers who contributed to this release. The full list of changes:

  • New and improved plugins:
    • support for calculating p-values in correlation matrix plugin
    • simplified CSV import plugin
    • new plugin: import SPSS files
    • various improvements to existing distribution and distribution plot plugins
    • new plugins: distribution plots: beta, binomial, cauchy, exponential, gamma, geometric, hypergeometric, logistics, lognormal, negative binomail, tukey, uniform, weibull, wilcoxon
    • new plugin: Ansari-Bradley two-sample test
    • support for preview functionality in graphing plugins
    • new plugin: barplot
    • new plugin: export contents of an X11 device to several different file formats
    • plugins can now be context sensitive (e.g. work on a particular x11 device)
    • new plugin: Wilcoxon Rank Sum test and Wilcoxon Exact Rank Sum test
    • new plugin: scatterplot matrix
    • new plugin: correlation matrix plot
    • new plugin element to select name of an R object to save to
    • add possibility to use dropdown lists in plugins
    • improvements to spinbox: step size is adjusted dynamically, and no arbitrary limits in real mode
    • fixed problem with specifying y axis limits in several plugins
    • single line input fields in plugins no longer accept new-lines
    • pressing tab changes focus while in a single line text input field
  • Other new features and improvements:
    • new documentation pages: console
    • place internal objects .rk.rkreply and .rk.available.packages.cache into rkward package environment
    • safer destruction of R backend on quitting
    • show full error message for syntax errors (only if compiled with R 2.4.0 or newer)
    • add ability to search command history context sensitively
  • Bugfixes and corrections:
    • make sure any LC_ALL environment setting will not be applied by SCIM plugin (if installed on the system)
    • fix crash after changing storage type of an object in the data editor
    • fixed: pressing F8 in the console would remove input focus from the console
    • fix several small problems with detached windows
    • fix a problem with keeping the list of objects up to date
    • fixed: installing packages as root would not work, when $R_HOME is not defined
    • fix compilation for the upcoming R 2.5.0
    • more correct auto-printing of values for user commands (only if compiled with R 2.4.0 or newer)
    • more correct handling of user commands consisting of several statements (only if compiled with R 2.4.0 or newer)

For feedback on the new release, and RKWard in general, contact us on the mailing list.