# The RKWard Handbook

Thomas
Friedrichsmeier

    rkward@kde.org

2006
2007
Thomas Friedrichsmeier & the RKWard Team
&FDLNotice;
2007-02-04
0.4.6

&rkward; is a GUI frontend to the powerful &R; language for statistical computing.

KDE
R
rkward
science

## Introduction

&rkward; is meant to be(come) an easy to use graphical frontend to the powerful &R; language for statistical computing. Since &R; is a full featured programming language, &rkward; will never be able to offer a complete GUI for everything in &R;. However, &rkward; strives to make common task simple, to provide an easy entry point for newcomers, while at the same time, transparent access to the full power of the underlying &R; language is provided for advanced users.

## Using &rkward;

Most documentation is available from inside &rkward; itself by selecting Help Help in &rkward; from the menu, not in this document.

A useful guide to getting started with &rkward; is User Documentation Section in the &rkward; wiki.

Please go there for an introduction to &rkward;, and contact us, if you can help with creating user documentation.

## Developer's Guide to &rkward;

&rkward; can be extended without the need to recompile using plugins. Extensive documentation on this should be included with &rkward; in DocBook format, and is available in &HTML; format here. (TODO: figure out, how to include this in the documentation).

## License

Documentation:

&underFDL;

&underGPL;

&documentation.index;