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<h1>RKWard installation bundle</h1>
<p>This is a bundle of KDE for Windows, R for Windows, and RKWard for windows. The purpose is to make installation of RKWard as easy as possible on Windows</p>
<p><b>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</b></p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<p>To install, simply double click the .exe. You will be prompted for a directory to install to. This could be C:\Programs\, but also a host of other options, including a network share or USB drive. A subdirectory "RKWard" will be created in this path, and all files installed in there. Note that R works best when installed to a path without spaces.</p>
<p>You may want to drag the "RKWard"-icon to your desktop after installation (it will be called "RKWard.lnk", if filename extensions are shown). Use this to start RKWard.</p>
<h2>Running</h2>
<p>Double click the "RKWard" icon.</p>
<h2>Uninstallation</h2>
<p>To remove all program files, simply delete the unpacked directory. If you copied the "RKWard" icon to your desktop, delete it there, too.</p>
<p>If you also want to purge any settings and files, remove the hidden directories ".kde" and ".rkward" in your application data directory. <b>Warning:</b> Do <b>not</b> do this, if you have any other installation of RKWard or KDE on your system, which you would like to keep, or you have created any RKWard output that you would like to keep.</p>
<p>Nothing is written to the registry, so no need to clean up, there.</p>
<h2>Troubleshooting</h2>
<p>For problems with RKWard on Windows, refer to <a href="http://p.sf.net/rkward/windows">http://p.sf.net/rkward/windows</a> . For problems specific to KDE or R, please refer to <a href="http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.r-project.org">http://www.r-project.org</a>, respectively.</p>
<h2>Copying</h2>
<p>This bundle may be copying, modified, and redistributed subject to the terms of the General Public Licence (GPL) version 2, a copy of which is included inside the bundle as a file named "COPYING" (also available from Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA). Individual portions of this bundle may also allow redristibution under alternative terms, but you should refer to their sources for details.</p>
<h3>Sources</h3>
<p>Source code for all portions of this bundle should be available from the same source where you downloaded this bundle. (Redistributors, if needed, provide your own instructions, here, in accordance with §3 of the GPL version 2). <b>However</b>, if you are interested in the source distribution for practical, rather than legal, reasons, we recommend you refer to the following places, instead:</p>
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<li>For KDE, the main page is <a href="http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</a>. Technical documentation is available from <a href="http://techbase.kde.org">http://techbase.kde.org</a>. Information specifically about the windows port of KDE is at <a href="http://windows.kde.org">http://windows.kde.org</a>. At the time of this writing, the recommended way to obtain and build sources for KDE on windows is <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge">using emerge</a>.</li>
<li>For R, the main project page is <a href="http://www.r-project.org">http://www.r-project.org</a>. Current and historical sources are linked from that page. For up-to-date instructions on installing or compiling R on Windows, refer to <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html">http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html</a> and <a href="http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/">http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/</a>.</li>
<li>For RKWard, the official source releases are linked from <a href="http://p.sf.net/rkward/downloads">http://p.sf.net/rkward/downloads</a>. This page also contains links to up-to-date instructions on compiling on various systems, as well as instructions on retrieving the most recent development sources.</li>
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