[rkward-devel] Thank you for RKWard

[Eric Doviak]

Dear Thomas and the RKWard developers and contibutors,

I have been a fan of RKWard for a since the 0.4.x releases. It was clear 
back then that you were producing the best environment for R, but I 
could never convince my students to use RKWard because it only ran on 
GNU/Linux systems. And we struggled because other IDEs simply do not 
stimulate their interest in statistical programming.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching econometrics come alive as one 
of my students explored RKWard on her MS Windows laptop. As she compared 
one of my R scripts to the tools that you developed, she began to see 
how the concepts that I discuss in class can be applied in a practical 
environment. And her eyes lit up.

She became confident in herself. She knew that RKWard would help her 
complete the course assignment. At the end of our session, she asked if 
she could install RKWard at work.

Thanks to your efforts millions of people will now be able to take their 
learning to the workplace.

That's an amazing achievement. Congratulations!

Eric Doviak
Asst. Professor, Economics
Brooklyn College