RKWard 0.5.3 - New features, and no longer depends on PHP
RKWard 0.5.3, is available for download, today. Internally, the largest change in this release is that plugins no longer use PHP for scripting but Javascript. This reduces the requirements for running RKWard, considerably, and also fixes a number of issues. While this change should be largely invisible to users, this version incorporates a number of new features and bugfixes, esp. on windows.
The changes in detail:
New features and improvements
- File browser window saves settings on exit
- Plugin dialogs are shown with a larger initial size
- Add close buttons to each tab in the main document view area (not available in KDE 4.0)
- Make "print", "export as HTML", "dynamic word wrap", and "increase/descress font size" available for the console window
- Use a native menu, instead of the default TclTk-menu
- Added "paste special" action to script editor and console for pasting R vectors and matrices from spreadsheets
- File -> Open R Script File now allows to specify the character encoding to use
- Initialize the output file with an appropriate encoding specification
- Add SVG support to export (graphics) plugin
- Add basic settings format settings for graphics output
- Convert all plugins to use ECMAscript instead of PHP; RKWard no longer depends on PHP
Fixes and corrections
- Fixed: Windows->Activate->Window left / right actions were always disabled
- Several windows-specific bugs were fixed
- Fixed: Newly created variables were not properly updated when closing and re-opening the editor
- Fix order of menus for detached windows
- Fixed: No entries were added the recent script/workspaces actions after "save as"
- Fixed: Frequent crashes while running automated plugintests
- Fixed: Filenames without extension would not be shown in file dialogs
- Fixed: Calling "fix(my.fun)" would remove comments
- Fixed: Removing "@CRAN@" from the repositories would break package installation
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