[rkward-users] [Help] RE: totally basic question - using packages

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The following forum message was posted by m-eik at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkward/forums/forum/165574/topic/4533322:

hi mark,

well, unfortunately it takes more for something to appear in any menu in RKWard
than to just install a plain R package. actually it's more the other way round:
some developer must provide RKWard with a so called plugin, which adds new dialogs
to the menu; and if that plugin depends on a certain R package, it will automatically
guide you through the package installation. as long as there's no extremevalues
plugin, it can't appear in RKWard, no matter how many packages you have
installed.

there is simply no way for any software to magically create a comprehensive
GUI out of just a bunch of R functions... if you are an R beginner, you will
have to learn the R basics first, anyways. there's a lot of how-tos and beginner's
manuals out there. RKWard can still make your working with R much more comfotable
(e.g., regarding your problem with data management, it has a powerful
spreadsheet-like data editor and import dialogs for varous data formats), but
you'll always have to know what you're doing!