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RKWard 0.7.2 - Kate plugins

Friday, 16 October 2020

A new release, RKWard 0.7.2, is available for download, today. This release brings kate plugins to RKWard, thereby adding a lot of functionality all at once, including search-in-files, and project management. But also the code hinting features from 0.7.1 have been brought to the R console window, a new "first run wizard" checks for common configuration issues.

As usual, please don't hesitate to contact us with your feedback, suggestions, and contributions!

The changes in detail:

  • New features and improvements
    • Script preview keeps vertical scroll position when updating
    • Add function rk.home() for retrieving applicaton paths, similar to R.home()
    • Add menu option to switch application language
    • Remove direct dependency on libintl
    • Add "Check installation" wizard to test for several common basic instation issues all in one place
    • Add rkward internal package location to end of library search path, to make it accessible to help.search()
    • Add menu action to open any supported file type, directly
    • Support using QWebEngine instead of QtWebKit (still supported)
    • <text> elements in plugins may now also contain clickable links, including rkward://-scheme links
    • The new code hinting features from version 0.7.1 are now also available in the console
    • On unix-systems, RKWard can now be run without installation
    • Kate addons are now supported within RKWard. Intially, search-in-files, snippets, and projects are loaded by default
    • Python development scripts have been ported to python3
  • Bug fixes
    • Fix some problems with plot preview in wizard-type plugins
    • Fix several small memory leaks
    • Clean some logged warnings and potential issues during R backend shutdown
    • Fixed: Avoid shorcut clash with kate part by removing conflicting (default) shortcuts, automatically