Sharing RKWard plugins and documentation

DES Alfonso Cano Robles alfonsociologo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 06:20:00 GMT 2026


Dear Thomas, Meik, Stefan, and the RKWard development team,
First of all, thank you for your incredible work on RKWard over the years.
It remains a fantastic and robust GUI and IDE.
I am writing to share a project I’ve been working on called rk.universe.
It’s a collection of over 70 GUI plugins aimed at bringing modern data
science workflows (Tidyverse, Quarto, etc.) directly into RKWard’s
interface.
I recently published some documentation explaining the architecture, the
GUI philosophy, and the complete plugin ecosystem, heavily inspired by your
2012 JSS paper.
You can view the pages here:

Architecture & Workflows:
https://alfcano.github.io/rk.universe/articles/architecture.html
Plugin Ecosystem:
https://alfcano.github.io/rk.universe/articles/rk.universe_pages.html

Any technical feedback on the architecture diagrams or the way I describe
the Qt/KDE integration would be appreciated. Also, feel free to link or
share this if you think it could be useful for the broader RKWard community.
Thank you again for your work.
Best regards,
Alfonso
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