RKWard 0.8.3

RKWard 0.8.3, has been released, today. Official downloads can be found in the usual place. Importantly this release addresses some incompatibility issues between RKWard 0.8.2 and the new R 4.6.0. RKWard 0.8.3 continues to work with older versions of R, but if you want to use RKWard R 4.6.0 or later, you will have to use RKWard version 0.8.3 or later.

Beyond this, the new release does not bring many large user-visible changes. Under the hood, however, we now support a different HTML rendering engine for help and output files (QWebView in additino to QWebEngine). We hope that this will put an end to recent stability issues that have been reported for certain configurations.

Advanced users may further appreciate the new option to define their own custom script preview modes.

As usual, we're looking forward to your feedback suggestions, and contributions!

The changes in detail:

• New features and improvements
  • Added: Allow to define custom script preview modes (rk.register.script.preview()))
  • Added: Various small updates to the R highlighting in the R console
  • Added: Allow translation of strings in the rkward R package
  • Added: Support HTML rendering with QWebView, which allows to use native renderers on some platforms
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed: Remove obsolete dependency on dbus
  • Fixed: Crash when splitting view on a data.frame editor window
  • Fixed: Allow compilation with the upcoming R 4.6
  • Fixed: Horizontal text alignment would be inaccurate for some symbols in RK() device
  • Fixed: Parts of a command entered interactively could run twice under specific circumstances
  • Fixed: Output window would fail to open, automatically, for certain plugins
  • Fixed: Width of "progress" dialogs (showing R output) would exceed screen size depending on configuration