# The RKWard Handbook

Thomas Friedrichsmeier

    rkward-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

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

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

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## Introduction

&kapp; 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, &kapp; will never be able to offer a complete GUI for everything in R. However, &kapp; 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 &kapp;

Most documentation is available from inside RKWard itself by selecting Help->Help on RKWard from the Menu, NOT in this document!

A useful guide to getting started with &kapp; is Getting Started Section in the &kapp; wiki.

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

## Developer's Guide to &kapp;

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

## License

Documentation:

&underFDL; &underGPL;
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