[rkward-users] RKWard-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 1

[Emmanuel Jjunju]

I am for the moment using rkward in linux after a series of frustrations in
Vista. I am waiting for windows-7

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>   1. Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3
>      (Thomas Friedrichsmeier)
>   2. Re: Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3 (Prasenjit Kapat)
>   3. Re: Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3 (Malcolm Hudson)
>   4. Re: [rkward-devel] Quick survey: Still using RKWard       for KDE 3
>      (Thomas Friedrichsmeier)
>   5. Call for testing: RKWard 0.5.2-pre1 / Release     schedule
>      (Thomas Friedrichsmeier)
>   6. Scripts being saved in binary (Patrick Richardson)
>   7. rkward on ubuntu 9.04 (again)... (alexandre villers)
>   8. Re: rkward on ubuntu 9.04 (again)... (meik michalke)
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> Message: 1
> Date: 30 Sep 2009 21:59:53 +0200
> From: "Thomas Friedrichsmeier"
>        <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> Subject: [rkward-users] Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3
> To: rkward-devel at lists.sourceforge.net,
>        rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
>        <200909302159.53388.thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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> Hi!
>
> I'd like to conduct a quick informal survey to determine whether/when
> further
> backports to KDE 3 are needed.
>
> 1) Are you still using RKWard for KDE 3 (i.e. RKWard 0.4.9x or lower)?
>
> (No need to respond if the answer is "no").
>
> 2) If so, which version of R do you use with that?
>
> 3) Are there any specific reasons that keep you from upgrading?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards
> Thomas
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:22:29 -0400
> From: Prasenjit Kapat <kapatp at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [rkward-users] Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3
> To: Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> Cc: rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net,
>        rkward-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
>        <de8c7cb40909301322v277acc5cp3a6665082361c3f3 at mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Hi,
>
> On 9/30/09, Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'd like to conduct a quick informal survey to determine whether/when
> > further
> > backports to KDE 3 are needed.
> >
> > 1) Are you still using RKWard for KDE 3 (i.e. RKWard 0.4.9x or lower)?
>
> YES. (rkward 0.4.9b, OR the relevant svn branch - depending on
> developments)
>
> > (No need to respond if the answer is "no").
>
> Statistically, it is important to get the "no" responses too ;)
>
> > 2) If so, which version of R do you use with that?
>
> Currently, R 2.8.2, but this updates from time to time....
>
> > 3) Are there any specific reasons that keep you from upgrading?
>
> Yes: no control over the department's servers. They use RedHat EL,
> currently at 5.3.
>
> [Aside:
> I am not sure if RedHat EL 6 will include KDE 4, though SLE 11.0
> already has KDE 4.1.3. Do any universities in US (or anywhere else for
> that matter) use Canonical for their enterprise Linux solutions?]
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Regards
> > Thomas
>
> Thanks for keeping KDE3 port alive. I can totally understand if you
> decide not to in future (if yes/(no+yes) << 1).
>
> Regards
> --
> Prasenjit
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:18:20 +1000
> From: Malcolm Hudson <hmhxmu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [rkward-users] Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3
> To: rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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> [rkward-users] Quick survey: Still using RKWard for KDE 3
> From: Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ru...> - 2009-09-30
> 20:00
>
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> Hi!
>
> I'd like to conduct a quick informal survey to determine whether/when
> further
> backports to KDE 3 are needed.
>
>
> 1) Are you still using RKWard for KDE 3 (i.e. RKWard 0.4.9x or lower)?
>
> YES. RKWard 0.4.9 (KDE 3.4.9)
>
> 2) If so, which version of R do you use with that?
>
> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>
> 3) Are there any specific reasons that keep you from upgrading?
>
> Haven't yet upgraded to Mandriva 2009.1 (currently using Mandriva
> 2008.1 which uses KDE 3).
> Will need some time to plan how to upgrade smoothly.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: 6 Oct 2009 22:44:50 +0200
> From: "Thomas Friedrichsmeier"
>        <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> Subject: Re: [rkward-users] [rkward-devel] Quick survey: Still using
>        RKWard  for KDE 3
> To: rkward-devel at lists.sourceforge.net,
>        rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
>        <200910062244.54048.thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your feedback (also to Michael and Malcolm).
>
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> > > 1) Are you still using RKWard for KDE 3 (i.e. RKWard 0.4.9x or lower)?
> >
> > YES. (rkward 0.4.9b, OR the relevant svn branch - depending on
> >  developments)
> >
> > > (No need to respond if the answer is "no").
> >
> > Statistically, it is important to get the "no" responses too ;)
>
> True. But mostly I was interested in the follow-up questions. To explain:
> As
> far as new developments are concerned, the KDE 3 branch is closed. Probably
> we'll copy the latest changes in plugins to the KDE 3 branch, since plugins
> are still (but not for very much longer) compatible. But other than that
> it's
> only important bugfixes. And since the KDE 3 branch been around for this
> long,
> any new "important" bugs are mostly going to be incompatibilities with new
> versions of R.
>
> > > 2) If so, which version of R do you use with that?
> >
> > Currently, R 2.8.2, but this updates from time to time....
>
> Ok, but that means the installation is typically some months behind, so we
> probably don't have to release 0.4.9c on time with R 2.10.0. I guess, we
> should soon after, but it's just more comfortable to do only one release at
> a
> time. So 0.5.2 will go first.
>
> > > 3) Are there any specific reasons that keep you from upgrading?
> >
> > Yes: no control over the department's servers. They use RedHat EL,
> > currently at 5.3.
>
> Ok. To explain a bit about this one, I was poking for barriers that we
> might
> be able to address inside RKWard. I'm afraid your department's servers are
> not
> something I can do anything about, though ;-).
>
> Regards
> Thomas
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> Message: 5
> Date: 7 Oct 2009 19:06:25 +0200
> From: "Thomas Friedrichsmeier"
>        <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> Subject: [rkward-users] Call for testing: RKWard 0.5.2-pre1 / Release
>        schedule
> To: rkward-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
>        <200910071906.29470.thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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>
> Hi!
>
> R 2.10.0 (scheduled to be released October, 26) will have a new dynamic
> help
> system, and unfortunately the current released versions of RKWard do no
> handle
> that well. Therefore I'd like to provide a new official release of RKWard
> in
> time.
>
> I've drafted a tentative timeline at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Release_Schedule
> . The targetted release date is October 20. That's fairly soon, but I feel
> the
> sources are in relatively good shape. Of course we still need a lot of
> testing, and that's the main point of this mail:
>
> --- Testing ---
>
> Please download the 0.5.2-pre1 release (also linked to from
> http://p.sf.net/rkward/download) and give it a try. If you have an alpha
> version of R 2.10.0 installed, or are willing to install one, testing with
> that will be particularily valuable. Please try to browse a few help pages,
> and produce some output. Also, if compiling from sources, please run
>   make plugintests
> after make install, and report any failed tests.
>
> Please try to provide feedback by October 14, i.e. a week from now.
>
> --- Translators ---
>
> .po and .pot files are located in the po-subdirectory, as usual. Please
> provide
> your updates by October 14.
>
> --- Plugin authors ---
>
> If you plan to add features to existing plugins before the release, please
> post to the mailing list, first. @Michael: I did not forget about you, and
> will
> provide feedback as soon as I can. I'm confident that the Stata-import
> plugin
> will be part of the official release. Please remember to prepare a small
> sample
> file that we can add to the sources for automated testing.
>
> You may be wondering what's up with the promised new scripting solution.
> Well,
> the first part of it is ready for evaluation/discussion/feedback, and I'll
> write a separate mail on this in the coming days. However, this will not be
> finished in time for the release, so plugins continue to be PHP-based in
> RKWard
> 0.5.2.
>
> --- Closing words ---
>
> Remeber: There's always many ways you can help, with or without programming
> skills. Testing is one important way to contribute, but for instance our
> wiki
> / website is always in need of love as well. If you have time to spare,
> your
> help will be very welcome.
>
> Thanks!
> Thomas
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:11 -0400
> From: Patrick Richardson <xplaner801 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [rkward-users] Scripts being saved in binary
> To: rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <1255476431.12476.2.camel at patrick-desktop>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> I'm running rkward-0.5.1 on Ubuntu 9.04. Although I love this program, I
> can't seem to get my scripts to save properly. When I click "Save" I get
> a warning message that the file will be saved as binary. Has anyone else
> had this problem or know how to get rid of it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:45:40 +0200
> From: "alexandre villers" <alexandre.villers at cebc.cnrs.fr>
> Subject: [rkward-users] rkward on ubuntu 9.04 (again)...
> To: rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <1256244340.82390acalexandre.villers at cebc.cnrs.fr>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> Good evening,
>
> I had trouble a couple of months ago when installing Rkward and Thomas
> provided me with some command lines to get an unbroken version of Rkward
>
> "sudo echo "deb http://reaktanz.de/deb/rkward jaunty main" >
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rkward.list
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get install rkward "
>
> Unfortunately, I had to reinstall Ubuntu and those lines don't work
> anymore. I get
>
> A Fatal Error Occurred
> The application RKWard (rkward) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT).
> Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
> http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error,
> documents that were loaded, etc.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Best regards
>
> Alex, Ubuntu beginner
> Alexandre Villers
> PhD. Student
> Team Biodiversity
> CEBC CNRS
> 79360 Beauvoir sur Niort
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:34:24 +0200
> From: meik michalke <meik.michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de>
> Subject: Re: [rkward-users] rkward on ubuntu 9.04 (again)...
> To: rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <200910230034.29035.meik.michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> hi alex,
>
> am Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 (22:45) schrieb alexandre villers:
> > Unfortunately, I had to reinstall Ubuntu and those lines don't work
> > anymore.
>
> please explain what you mean by "don't work anymore" (i'm the one behind
> the
> reaktanz.de repository). did anything produce an error during the process?
>
> what ist the outcome of the following commands:
>  cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rkward.list
>  R --version
>  rkward --version
>
>
> viele gr??e :: m.eik
>
> --
> dipl. psych. meik michalke
> institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
> abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
> heinrich-heine-universit"at
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