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RKWard: all versions and old releases

RKWard is an easy to use and easily extensible IDE/GUI for R.

5 versions of RKWard are listed here, from October 24, 2022 to the current 0.8.3. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2022: 1 1 22 2023: 0 23 2024: 1 1 24 2025: 2 2 25 2026: 1 1 26

5 versions over 3 years · about 1.4 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
0.8.3Latest April 24, 2026 340.0 MB 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup) 340.0 MB64-bit EXE (Inno Setup) 340.0 MB
Release notes
- Fixed: Remove obsolete dep# on dbus
- 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
- 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
0.8.2 October 1, 2025 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Fixed: Package installation dialog now works with options(pkgType="both"), and this is now the default on Windows and Mac
- Adeed: Allow to show kate plugin provided code completion lists (e.g. snippets or project plugin)
- Fixed: Code completion (importantly filename completion) failed to trigger inside quotes
- Fixed: Code completion hints would sometimes be misplaced to top-left cursor position
- Fixed: Call hint did not show active function along with arguments
- Changed: R backend now uses UTF-8 mode on Windows
- Added: options(error) may now be set freely (no longer needs to be .rk.do.error for correct behavior)
- Fixed: Attached windows would not always be placed in the most recently active pane (in a split view)
- Fixed: Crash when switching from dialog to wizard interface in plugins providing a preview
- Fixed: Crash using context menu while data editor is visible, under certain conditions
- Added: Enhanced "R Console" preview mode, including produced plots
- Added: New mechanism RK.addHook() to monitor RK() devices for modifications
- Added: Actions to navigate R code based on its structure & Quick Code Navigation Mode
- Added: Plugins: Enhance addChangeCommand() to allow writing more readable GUI logic code
- Added: Plugins: Simplify running R commands inside GUI logic code
- Fixed: Crash on script errors in plugins
- Fixed: Printing of captured R messages/warnings in plugins was broken
- Internal: Code cleanups
- Internal: Remove dependency on Qt5-compatibility library
0.8.1 April 21, 2025 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Added: Allow to register custom R functions in the menu (rk.menu())
- Added: Plugin to facilitate download of latest AppImage (Linux only)
- Added: Allow to limit plugins to certain platforms
- Fixed: antialising=FALSE was ignored in RK() device
- Added: Impoement glyph()-functionality in RK() device
- Fixed: Crash when manually adding plugin maps via "Manage R packages and pluigns"
- Fixed: Abnormal exit on Windows while trying to launch gpgpme (triggered from PDF previews)
- Fixed: Failure to paint symbols in onscreen device, under some circumstances
- Fixed: Potential library conflicts on systems shipping a more recent version of libglib2 than included in the AppImage
- Fixed: Implement capbilities report for RK() device (may fix graphics limitation, but also potential crashes with R >= 4.2.0)
- Fixed: Adjustments to changes in R devel (for compatibility with the future R 4.5.x)
- Fixed: Potential crash on "spontaneous" R output (originating from event handlers such as tcl)
- Fixed: commandArgs() would show incorrect options
- Internal: Various code cleanups
- Added: Configuration pages for loaded kate plugins are integrated into the settings dialog
0.8.0 July 28, 2024 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Fixed: Crash when trying to edit a data.frame containing columns that are not vectors
- Fixed: Basic statistics would refuse to "overwrite file", even if saving to file was unchecked
- Changed: Status indicator for preview windows (updating/ready) is less obstrusive
- Added: Ability to open PDF documents inside the RKWard window, and associated R function rk.show.pdf()
- Fixed: Add breeze icons as a fallback on systems that use a different icon theme (fixes missing icons)
- Added: Setup dialog includes setting to select a different R installation
- Added: Command line option "--setup" to force (re-)initialization as if a new version of RKWard had been installed
- Fixed: R functions loadhistory(), savehistory(), and timestamp() broken
- Changed: R shared library is now loaded, dynamically, rather than linked at compile time.
This allows more flexibility on which R version to use at runtime, esp. in the context of AppImage binaries
- Fixed: References to the package cairoDevice (removed on CRAN) have been replaced with Cairo
- Fixed: Creating new output window from the UI would sometimes show empty window
- Fixed: Better support for running from non-standard paths on Linux (e.g. user-local installation in home dir)
- Fixed: Added REUSE license information where missing
- Fixed: Handling of carriage returns in R Console window (used in progress bars, importantly)
- Fixed: Crash when renaming top level object from context menu
- Changed: First version to be based on Qt6/KF6
0.7.5-rc1 October 24, 2022 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
- Fixed: Backend failed to start when installed in a path with spaces on Windows volumes without 8.3 support
- Fixed: Trying to restart backend could cause a hang, on Windows
- Fixed: In corner cases, cancelling commands could lead to a lockup
- Fixed: IRT Cronbach's Alpha did not work for subsets, if the data.frame name contains dots
- Fixed: Action to remove several rows in data editor, simultaneously, always remained disabled
- Fixed: Workspace browser would not always show change, immediately, when object type changes
- Fixed: Crash when using the "Git blame" kate plugin
- Fixed: Problem installing R support package in some configurations
- Fixed: Menubar would disapper after opening script editor, in some configurations
- Fixed: Very long error messages during R markdown preview could cause the preview window to become too wide
- Fixed: Expresssions spanning several lines would not be shown, correctly, in "R Console"-mode script preview
- Fixed: Fix focus problems, and better efficiency for data previews (as used in data import dialogs)
- Fixed: Excel import plugin failed to accept file name
- Fixed: Fix zooming help/output pages with Ctrl+scroll wheel, when compiled with QWebEngine
- Fixed: Fix problem handling rkward:// links from dialogs on some sytems
- Fixed: Fix object name completion for (irregular) names starting with numbers or underscores
- Added: Partial completions (Tab-key) consider completion candidates from all visible completion groups
- Added: R's dynamic completions (importantly for ":::", "?", and "@") are merged into the already provided completions
- Added: Add option to offer code completion/hinting in all file types not just R scripts (e.g. in .Rmd files)
- Changed default behavior (new installations, only): Up/down without alt navigate completion items if visible in console/editor
- Added: Provide tooltips on symbols in scripts and R console
- Added: Many new basic and advanced R, R Markdown and LaTeX snippets, including complete R Markdown templates
- Added: Allow to select search provider, when searching for a term online
- Added: Allow to restart R backend (e.g. for testing that scripts or packages will work in a fresh session)
- Changed: Actions to restart the R backend, interrupt all commands and configure the R backend arranged in a hmburger menu
- Added: Crosstabs N to N: Simplify labels, add option to control table layout
- Added: Change mechanism for detection of object changes

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