#RKWard just gained a new #R function, rk.select.file(). it combines the functionality of file.select() and more importantly, utils::choose.dir() which is only available in #rstats for #windows. it opens a file system browser so you can select a file or directory, and returns the selected path. there's a wrapper rk.choose.dir() which only accepts directories.

I started a small survey about #RKWard. The results so far:
- Turns out that 83 % don't know it and
- circa 8 % use it.

There were 139 people who participated in the survey. Given that RKWard is among the oldest #rstats IDEs and GUIs [1], it is somewhat surprising. I suppose we should improve the advertising of our tool.

https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v049.i01

Open source projects thrive on others joining in. Here is a nice example of an #RKWard user who has started to create help for RKWard, in RKWard with #Quarto. Help is certainly gratefully accepted.

https://lgschuck.github.io/rkward_manual/

source code git: https://github.com/lgschuck/rkward_manual

#rstats

@sharoz One of the oldest #rstats GUI/IDEs called #RKWard (https://rkward.kde.org/, https://fosstodon.org/@rkward).

https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v049i09

@magljo
In #RKWard we have a #git integration. Since I am not using database connection I cannot tell about this.

One thing I really like about #RKWard (#rstats) is the paste special feature. This function is very useful if you want to paste data from the clipboard as a data.frame or if you would like to transform the data.

Occasionally, I think about how to work effectively with #rstats. Currently, I am teaching my #bioinformatics courses with #RKWard again. I try to do most of it with packages from the base installation. #datatable is an exception. But otherwise, I like to use #within (very fast) instead of #mutate.
But there are more approaches, which are often simpler/faster/stable:

- https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic/blob/master/RDesign.pdf
- https://davidhughjones.medium.com/dont-forget-non-tidyverse-solutions-979c870c7f3e

@mfolim @kde @rkward
Developers are often a bit biased because they know what to do. Thus, your feedback is highly appreciated. Would you mind being so kind and tell where you would like to see more documentation for #RKWard?

@kde KDE and Free Software developers support #climate research by providing transparent, robust, and adaptable tools for all scientists worldwide.

Thank you @kde for making such great #research tools accessible for all to use, understand, adapt, and share. These inherent characteristics of #OpenSouce #FreeSoftware make for good science!

#FOSS #Science #LabPlot #Cantor #RKWard #KStars #Kile #KBibTex #TeXLaTeX #rstat #FSF #FSFE

@LabPlot

An interesting blog post from the developers of the Kate text editor. It seems like they are adding a embedded terminal to Windows.

https://kate-editor.org/post/2023/2023-02-15-kate-win-terminal/

This is good news for #RKWard because this might end up there too. This is because RKWard gets numerous features from KDE technology.

#kateeditor #kate

@FrederikAust
I would like to mention that #RKWard @rkward is starting to provide papaja code snippets as of version 0.7.5.
Currently
papaja::r_refs
papaja::sanatize_terms
papaja::apa_print
More likely in the future.

@wviechtb

#papaja

@tomdewar
Thanks for the feedback.

Methinks, it is more like a competitor to #RKWard, #JASP, #Jamovi, #Rcmdr, #Rattle, #Deducer #AnalyticFlow {FLOSS & free of charge} or #bluesky, {commercial} than to #RStudio.

RStudio is more an IDE than a GUI. Tools like RKWard are both.

@wviechtb
If #Kate works, maybe #RKWard too?

I just tested the #bruceR package in #RKWard, which has many useful functions. It is a bit confusing to see the hint for #RStudio. Plot pane. 😏
It is really great to have packages like #pacman, data.table, which solve many porblems. When I started with R in 2002, things were a bit different.

#reticulate is a great package to work with #python in #rstats. Here is a very simple example of how to use it in #RKWard.

RKWard supports syntax highlighting for several languages, including Python. However, this is not done automatically, but must be selected by the user (blue arrow).

#reticulate is a great package to work with #python in #rstats. Here is a very simple example of how to use it in #RKWard.

RKWard supports syntax highlighting for several languages, including Python. However, this is not done automatically, but must be selected by the user (blue arrow).

@ronblum
Thanks for the clarification! I use #RKWard for research/work but mainly show #RStudio to students. … told them something wrong I guess 🙄

I just learned that the #XiMpLe package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=XiMpLe) got some interesting updates in the development branch (https://github.com/rkward-community/XiMpLe/commits/develop). XiMpLe is a simple #XML tree parser/generator. For example it is useful to to read XML files into R objects, to get information out of and into nodes, and write R objects back to XML code. Originally it was made for the development of #RKWard plugin.

#rstats

@chanceyork
Mainly bioinformatics with #rstats and #RKWard beeing my friends. Sometimes #Python helps to solve problems. #datatable (the #SQL of #R) is what I often use. My raw data originate from methods like #qPCR, #dPCR, #NGS and image data of patient data (count data, time series) keep me busy. Lately I worked with text data in my work related to #forensics.

@zlatiah just looked at your #codeberg. #awk #sh #R #md … with these skills my recommendation is: Skip the pure #LaTeX idea and go for #RMarkdown (#RKWard || #Posit support this quite nicely).

Have a look here for templates: https://fosstodon.org/@devSJR/109321171970580456

Apart from that I recommend my students this: https://rosannavanhespen.nl/rmarkdown/writing-your-thesis-with-r-markdown-1-getting-started/