RKWard 0.7.2 - Kate plugins
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