Hi, I had meant to write this mail much earlier, but never found the time: The current development version has some new features which we need feedback on. You can get it from SVN as usual, but if you're running Ubuntu or openSUSE, you can also find compiled packages at https://launchpad.net/~rkward- devel/+archive/rkward-devel and https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Atfry-suse%3Arkward- devel , respectively.
-- The first area that needs some testing and feeback is the plot history feature which Prasenjit has added to the graphics windows. Basically, please create a few plots in one or more windows, try the toolbar buttons, and comment on any aspect that is not intuitive, or buggy. Prasenjit, if you have a bit of time, could you summarize the remaining questions, again? -- The second area that I would like to pick your brains about is some new plugin features. Perhaps you recall this short thread on how to deal with plugins that do data.frame specific transformations: http://www.mail- archive.com/rkward-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00779.html . The development snapshots have some variants of a solution for that. To try it, frist make sure that the under_development.pluginmap is activated under Settings- >Configure RKWard->Plugins. You should see a new top-level menu called "Data". In this, there are two variants of a "Sort data" plugin, and you will want to try each a) while you are editing a data.frame, and the data.frame is the active window and b) while any other window is active. As you will see, in case b), both plugins will seem identical. In case a), the active data.frame is preselected in both plugins, but the first variant still allows to select a different data.frame to sort. Key questions on that: - Which variant of the plugin is preferrable? - Do you think it is intuitively clear, when a data.frame is "active"? Suggestions for improving this? You may also want to look at the "Generate random data" plugin. Here, when a data.frame is active, the generated data will be added to that data.frame by default. When no data.frame is active, the generated data will be added to the .GlobalEnv by default. In both cases, the <saveobject>-element at the bottom allows to select a different place to save to (which is new, as well). Finally, plugin developers will be interested in taking a look at the technical side of these plugins. The code for them can to be found in plugins/data. You will see note two things: - The active object (currently data.frames, only) is available from a property called "current_object". If no object is active, this is an empty string. - There is a <script>-block, which allows scripting of the dialog itself, instead of the generated code. Here, it is mainly used to check whether or not the selected object is a data.frame. I hope you can figure out the meaning of the code in the <script>-block yourself, and if you can't, that probably means I need to change things. One further plugin to show some more possibilities of plugin scripting is in Analysis/QtScript Test 1 (code is in plugins/tests). I suppose this will be particularly interesting to Meik, who has been asking for similar functionality in the past. Please let me know what you think (since this is totally undocumented ATM, you may want to take a look at scriptbackends/rkcompnentscripting.js as a reference of implemented functionality). Well, take your time, we don't need to rush decisions on any of this, but it would be cool, if you could take a look at these new features, and share your thoughts. Regards Thomas
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