Sharing RKWard plugins and documentation

[DES Alfonso Cano Robles]

Hi Thomas,
Thank you so much for reaching out and for your feedback! It is always
great to hear from you.

Regarding your question on how to make external work more visible from
within RKWard, I think there are three ways we could bridge the gap for new
users:

A Featured Community Repository / List: If the RKWard package manager
(Manage R packages and plugins) could natively feature or pre-configure
external repository URLs like my R-Universe (https://alfcano.r-universe.dev),
users would see rk.universe (and its 70+ modules) directly under "New
Packages" without having to manually type out custom repos parameters.

1. A "Get More Plugins" / Community Section: Having a dedicated subsection
in the settings or help menu that links to community-driven categories like:

   - Data Import, Export & Manipulation (e.g., rk.haven, rk.dplyr,
   rk.data.wrangling, rk.dates, rk.lubridate),
   - Psychometrics (e.g. rk.efa, rk.psych, rk.rstatix),
   - Complex Surveys  (e.g. rk.survey.design...)
   - Statistical Modeling & Predictive Analysis (e.g., rk.bayesian,
   rk.lavaan, rk.survival, rk.forecast, rk.business.mining, rk.tuning),
   - Industrial Engineering & Quality Control (e.g., rk.six.sigma,
   rk.weibull),
   - Data Visualization & Mapping (e.g., rk.ggsurvey, rk.cartographr,
   rk.rnaturalearth),
   - Storytelling & High-Impact Graphics (e.g., rk.storytelling.data,
   rk.storytelling.survey),
   - Academic Reporting & Tables (e.g., rk.quarto, rk.rmd, rk.gtsummary,
   rk.tinytable, rk.flextable) (I would not mind making a complete list or
   category suggestion if you think it is feasible)

I think this would help to direct users straight to advanced tables
(rk.gtsummary, rk.tinytable) and survey tools.

A welcome page integration: Mentioning or featuring community suites on
RKWard's startup/welcome dashboard could help newcomers looking for
specific workflows (like tidyverse or gtsummary integration) right away.

Ultimately, making the installation of rk.universe a one-click process from
inside RKWard's GUI package manager could be too much for the average user
but could make a lot for its adoption.

Thanks again for your support and for creating such a platform!
Best regards,
Alfonso

El jue, 5 nov 2026 a la(s) 3:17 p.m., Thomas Friedrichsmeier (
thomas.friedrichsmeier at kdemail.net) escribió:

> Hi,
>
> Am Thu, 5 Nov 2026 00:20:00 -0600
> schrieb DES Alfonso Cano Robles <alfonsociologo at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
>
> that's impressive work. Thanks a lot for that! Do you have some ideas, how
> we
> could make your work more visible to new users from within RKWard?
>
> > Any technical feedback on the architecture diagrams or the way I describe
> > the Qt/KDE integration would be appreciated.
>
> That looks both concise and correct. One point you might want to highlight
> (you
> do mention it a bit further down), is that there is no vendor lock-in as
> everything is visibly done in R code.
>
> > Also, feel free to link or
> > share this if you think it could be useful for the broader RKWard
> community.
>
> Yes, that's definitely something we should link from our website. Thanks
> for
> sharing!
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>


-- 
Dr. Alfonso Cano Robles


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