New RKWard plug-in: rk.universe and updated table with 63 plugins

[stefan_roediger at gmx.de]

BTW, do you or do you plan to build tinyplot, tinytable and data.table plugins?

On October 12, 2026 6:04:27 PM UTC, DES Alfonso Cano Robles <alfonsociologo at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear RKWard developers,
>
>I hope this email finds you well.
>
>I would like to share with you a new plug-in that I have recently created
>for RKWard: *rk.universe*. It is a meta-package (inspired by the tidyverse
>package) that automatically installs, loads, and synchronizes 63+ RKWard
>GUI plugins for data manipulation, statistical analysis, and academic
>publishing.
>
>You can check out the source code and repository on GitHub:
>https://github.com/alfcano/rk.universe
>
>It is also available for installation through R-universe at:
>https://alfcano.r-universe.dev/rk.universe
>
>Here is an updated table of plug-ins:
>
>n Name Version Description
>1 rk.aiken.v 0.02.9
>An RKWard plugin to calculate Aiken's coefficients for content validity (V)
>and homogeneity (H).
>2 rk.apyramid 0.1.3
>Provides a graphical interface for the {apyramid} package within RKWard. It
>allows users to create publication-quality population pyramids from both
>standard data frames and complex survey design objects (svydesign) with
>minimal effort.
>3 rk.bayesian 0.0.2
>It is an external plug-in for RKWard that introduces a full suite of
>Bayesian statistical tests powered by the `BayesFactor` package. It is
>designed to provide "Jamovi-like" output, including Bayes Factors,
>posterior effect size estimates, descriptive statistics, and visualization
>plots.
>4 rk.cartographr 0.1.2
>An RKWard plugin package for creating beautiful maps using the cartographr
>R package. This plugin provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to fetch
>data from OpenStreetMap and generate customizable map plots directly within
>RKWard.
>5 rk.case.if 0.0.1
>It is an advanced RKWard GUI plugin suite designed to handle the most
>common and frustrating data wrangling tasks: conditional recoding and
>repairing broken dates.
>6 rk.class.lists 0.0.2
>This package provides a suite of RKWard plugins designed to simplify the
>manipulation of R object classes and data structures. It offers a graphical
>interface for coercing objects (e.g., converting a matrix to a data frame),
>changing vector types (e.g., numeric to factor), and performing complex
>list operations (creating, appending, and extracting elements).
>7 rk.codebook 0.0.2
>rk.codebook generates professional HTML data dictionaries directly within
>RKWard. It bridges the gap between RKWard's internal variable labels and
>standard R reporting tools (powered by sjPlot), allowing you to create
>instant "Codebooks" for your datasets.
>8 rk.correspondence 0.0.1
>rk.correspondence brings modern, visually appealing multivariate statistics
>to the RKWard GUI. Powered by the industry-standard FactoMineR and
>factoextra packages, this plugin provides an intuitive, "R Commander-style"
>interface to compute and visualize Simple and Multiple Correspondence
>Analysis without writing a single line of code.
>9 rk.cSplit 0.01.10
>An RKWard plugin to split concatenated columns into a long or wide format
>using the cSplit() function from the 'splitstackshape' package.
>10 rk.ctables 0.0.2
>rk.ctables is an RKWard plugin that brings the power of SPSS-style "Custom
>Tables" (CTABLES) to R. Powered by the [expss](
>https://gdemin.github.io/expss/) package, it allows you to build complex
>hierarchical tables using a simple drag-and-drop interface, bridging the
>gap for users migrating from SPSS to R
>11 rk.data.wrangling 0.1.6
>rk.data.wrangling brings modern, "tidy" data manipulation tools to the
>RKWard GUI. It provides a user-friendly interface for the powerful dplyr
>package, allowing users to perform complex batch
>operations—transformations, recoding, and scoring—on multiple variables
>simultaneously without writing complex code.
>12 rk.dates 0.0.3
>This package provides a single, powerful RKWard plugin designed to convert
>various numeric and character representations of dates and times into R's
>standard POSIXct (date-time) format. It simplifies the often-tricky process
>of handling date/time data imported from other statistical software or
>sources.
>13 rk.ddi.import 0.0.5
>An RKWard plugin designed to streamline the workflow of processing raw
>survey data. It reads Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) compliant XML
>files—commonly distributed by statistical agencies like INEGI (Mexico),
>DANE (Colombia), and others—and automatically applies variable descriptions
>and value labels to your R data frames.
>14 rk.doe 0.0.1
>An RKWard plugin for generating Full Factorial, Fractional Factorial, and
>Response Surface designs using 'DoE.base, FrF2.'. Design Generation: Create
>Full Factorial, Fractional Factorial, and Response Surface designs and
>specialized ANOVA and interaction plots for experimental designs.
>15 rk.dplyr 0.1.4
>An RKWard plugin for data table combination and manipulation using the
>'dplyr' library.
>16 rk.efa 0.0.4
>An RKWard GUI plugin for Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Polychoric
>correlations, and visualizing Factor models
>17 rk.effect.sizes 0.0.1
>rk.effect.sizes provides a seamless, point-and-click graphical interface
>inside RKWard to calculate effect sizes for various statistical
>experimental designs. Acting as a unified GUI wrapper for powerful
>statistical R packages like effsize, rstatix, sjstats, and rcompanion, this
>plugin allows users to compute essential metrics like Cohen's d, Eta
>Squared, and Kendall's W without writing a single line of code.
>18 rk.exporter 0.0.4
>rk.exporter brings seamless, automated batch exporting capabilities to the
>RKWard GUI. Stop wasting hours manually exporting plots one by one or
>copy-pasting tables into Microsoft Office.
>Powered by purrr, flextable, and officer, this plugin suite allows you to
>take a List of ggplot2 objects or flextables and instantly export them as
>hundreds of individual high-res files, or compile them directly into
>professional, multi-page Word documents, PDFs, or PowerPoint presentations.
>19 rk.fastdummies 0.0.3
>Extends RKWard's data wrangling capabilities by providing a graphical
>interface for the {fastDummies} package. It allows users to quickly create
>dummy variables (one-hot encoding) from character or factor variables.
>Uniquely, this plugin supports both standard data.frame objects and complex
>survey designs (svydesign), ensuring that your weighted data structure
>remains intact during transformation.
>20 rk.flextable 0.0.5
>RKWard plugin that provides a graphical interface for the powerful
>flextable package. It allows users to easily create, format, and export
>professional tables for scientific publications and reports directly from
>the RKWard GUI, without writing complex R code.
>21 rk.forcats 0.1.8
>An RKWard plugin package for factor manipulation using the 'forcats'
>library.
>22 rk.gganimate 0.0.6
>rk.gganimate is an advanced RKWard GUI plugin suite that brings the power
>of gganimate, ggplot2, and srvyr into a point-and-click interface. Designed
>for data storytelling, it allows researchers to easily aggregate complex
>survey data (or standard data frames) and render stunning,
>publication-ready animated GIFs—including Gapminder-style bubble charts,
>dynamic line charts, and viral Bar Chart Races.
>23 rk.ggsurvey 0.1.11
>A plugin package analyze complex survey designs with custom plugins and the
>'ggsurvey' package.
>24 rk.googlesheets4 0.0.2
>This package provides a suite of RKWard plugins that create a graphical
>user interface for the popular `googlesheets4` R package. It is designed to
>bridge the gap between desktop RKWard sessions and cloud-based Google
>Sheets, allowing for authentication, reading, writing, and management of
>sheets without needing to memorize API functions.
>25 rk.grateful 0.0.2
>rk.grateful is an RKWard GUI plugin designed to facilitate the citation of
>R packages used in your project. A must-have for researchers and data
>scientists promoting reproducible science!
>26 rk.gsub.sub 0.0.7
>RKWard GUI for sub() and gsub() to find and replace patterns in character
>vectors.
>27 rk.gtsummary 0.1.4
>An RKWard plugin to generate summary tables using the 'gtsummary' package,
>supporting both standard data.frames (tbl_summary) and survey design
>objects (tbl_svysummary).
>28 rk.haven 0.0.1
>GUI importer for SPSS, Stata, and SAS datasets using the haven package.
>Manages encodings, value labels, and RKWard metadata synchronization.
>29 rk.interactive.bi 0.0.1
>rk.interactive.bi provides a seamless, point-and-click graphical interface
>inside RKWard to create interactive, cross-filtered dashboards without
>needing a Shiny server. Acting as a unified GUI wrapper for powerful
>web-rendering R packages like crosstalk, plotly, DT, kpiwidget, and bslib,
>this plugin allows users to build modular visual analytics and export them
>as standalone HTML files.
>30 rk.ipumsr 0.0.1
>rk.ipumsr provides a seamless, point-and-click graphical interface inside
>RKWard to automatically fetch, pool, and label survey data from the IPUMS
>Current Population Survey (CPS) using the official ipumsr API. It
>eliminates the need to manually navigate the IPUMS website, download .dat
>files, or write complex extraction code.
>31 rk.janitor 0.0.2
>This package provides a suite of RKWard plugins that create a graphical
>user interface for the **[janitor](https://github.com/sfirke/janitor)** R
>package. It implements a "Inspect -> Clean -> Validate" workflow, allowing
>users to sanitize dataframes, manage duplicates, and create
>publication-ready frequency tables without writing code.
>32 rk.lavaan 0.0.1
>It is an RKWard plugin that provides a graphical interface for lavaan
>(Latent Variable Analysis), the gold standard for Structural Equation
>Modeling in R. It allows researchers to specify models using standard
>syntax, fit them using various estimators, and visualize the results using
>semPlot package.
>33 rk.lookup 0.0.1
>An RKWard plugin for looking up values using the 'lookup' package. Features
>a single interface for both Vector-based lookup and Excel-style Vlookup.
>34 rk.lubridate 0.0.5
>This package provides a suite of RKWard plugins that create a graphical
>user interface for the lubridate R package. It simplifies working with
>dates and times by providing tools for parsing, formatting, arithmetic, and
>interval analysis without memorizing format codes or function names.
>35 rk.map.globalities 0.0.3
>Is a specialized spatial data downloader for RKWard. While its sibling
>plugin (rk.map.localities) focuses on high-resolution municipalities, this
>plugin focuses on the Big Picture: Continents, Subregions, and the World.
>36 rk.map.localities 0.0.3
>Is a comprehensive spatial data manager for RKWard. While its core feature
>is connecting to the high-resolution GADM database (via geodata) to
>download Admin Level 2 boundaries (Municipalities, Counties), version 0.0.2
>expands its capabilities to include importing, exporting, and merging
>spatial objects.
>37 rk.mult.resp 0.0.4
>This package provides a suite of RKWard plugins for analyzing Multiple
>Response Sets (also known as "Check-all-that-apply" questions). Powered by
>the expss package, it brings SPSS-style tables and logic to RKWard,
>allowing you to define, tabulate, and cross-tabulate complex survey data
>(including survey weights) without writing code.
>38 rk.names.labels 0.0.6
>A plugin package to clean and create names and labels of variables of a
>data.frame or manipulate names in a list in the Rkward GUI.
>39 rk.network.graphs 0.0.1
>brings powerful network analysis and visualization to the RKWard GUI. Built
>on top of the robust igraph, IRanges, and rgexf packages, this plugin suite
>bridges the gap between qualitative coding software (like QualCoder), raw
>adjacency matrices, and professional network visualization tools (like
>Gephi).
>40 rk.pivot.reshape 0.01.10
>An RKWard plugin to reshape data by pivoting it longer or wider using
>functions from the 'tidyr' package.
>41 rk.psych 0.0.1
>Is a RKWard plug-in that consolidates frequentist statistical tests,
>assumption checks, effect sizes, and visualizations into single
>"All-in-One" dialogs.
>42 rk.qcc 0.0.1
>It is an RKWard plugin that provides a graphical interface for the [qcc](
>https://cran.r-project.org/package=qcc) package. It enables industrial
>engineers and data analysts to create standard Statistical Process Control
>(SPC) charts and perform Capability Analysis without writing R code.
>43 rk.quarto 0.0.6
>RKWard Plugin Suite for Quarto Document generation.
>44 rk.questionr 0.6.2
>A plugin package to analyze complex survey designs with custom plugins and
>the 'questionr' package.
>45 rk.rmd 0.0.2
>rk.rmd brings a visual, intuitive boilerplate generator for R Markdown
>directly to the RKWard GUI. Stop struggling with complex YAML syntax, LaTeX
>preamble configurations, or trying to remember how to properly link authors
>to multiple institutions in APA format.
>46 rk.rnaturalearth 0.1.5
>Is a user-friendly wrapper for the rnaturalearth, sf, and ggspatial
>packages within RKWard. It allows users to generate high-quality
>administrative Choropleth maps (heat maps based on regions) without needing
>complex GIS knowledge or shapefile management.
>47 rk.shiny.plugins 1.2.0
>rk.shiny.plugins, bundles several interactive data visualization and
>analysis tools (Shiny apps and HTML widgets) into a single, easy-to-install
>RKWard extension. The entire development process is encapsulated within the
>R script, making it reproducible, easy to maintain, and simple to extend
>with new plugins
>48 rk.six.sigma 0.0.1
>It is designed to bridge the gap between open-source R statistics and
>commercial quality control software like Minitab or Bluesky Statistics. It
>provides a user-friendly GUI for performing Measurement System Analysis
>(MSA) and Process Capability studies, leveraging the power of the
>`SixSigma`, `irr`, and `MASS` packages.
>49 rk.storytelling.data 0.3.0
>Brings the principles of Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's *"Storytelling with
>Data" (SWD)* to the RKWard GUI. It provides a specialized collection of
>`ggplot2` wrappers designed to reduce cognitive load
>50 rk.storytelling.survey 0.1.1
>Applies the principles of Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic's "Storytelling with
>Data" (SWD) to complex survey data. By integrating the power of the survey
>and lemon packages, it provides a specialized collection of RKWard plugins
>designed to communicate weighted results (Means and Totals) with clarity,
>precision, and professional aesthetics.
>51 rk.stringr 0.1.1
>An RKWard plugin for string manipulation using the 'stringr' library.
>52 rk.subset.tidy 0.0.2
>An RKWard GUI plugin for subsetting cases and variables using dplyr
>(filter, slice, select, arrange).
>53 rk.survey.design 0.8.3
>A plugin package to create and analyze complex survey designs using the
>'survey' package.
>54 rk.survey.wrangling 0.1.4
>rk.survey.wrangling extends RKWard's capabilities to handle complex survey
>designs (svydesign objects). It leverages the {srvyr} package to apply
>modern, "tidy" manipulation verbs (like mutate, group_by, and across) to
>survey data while automatically preserving sampling weights,
>stratification, and variance estimation parameters.
>55 rk.survival 0.0.1
>Modern Survival Analysis for RKWard upgrades the survival analysis
>capabilities of RKWard by integrating the powerful survival and survminer
>It allows users to perform rigorous survival analysis and generate
>publication-quality, `ggplot2`-based visualizations (Kaplan-Meier curves,
>Forest plots, and Diagnostic plots) via a simple GUI.
>56 rk.svyplot 0.0.2
>This package provides an RKWard GUI front-end for the base graphics
>plotting functions included in the powerful survey package. It allows users
>to create survey-weighted plots, which can be more representative than
>standard plots, without writing R code.
>57 rk.text.mining 0.0.3
>rk.text.mining brings a complete, user-friendly text mining pipeline to the
>RKWard GUI. Powered by the industry-standard tm (Text Mining) and SnowballC
>packages, this plugin suite allows researchers to import text documents,
>clean corpora, extract term frequencies, and discover word associations
>without writing a single line of complex R code
>58 rk.tidycensus 0.0.2
>rk.tidycensus provides a seamless, point-and-click graphical interface
>inside RKWard to download microdata, socio-economic indicators, and spatial
>geometries from the US Census Bureau. Acting as a GUI wrapper for the
>powerful tidycensus R package by Kyle Walker, this plugin allows users to
>fetch, clean, and map census data without writing a single line of code.
>59 rk.tidyr 0.0.4
>This package provides a suite of RKWard plugins that create a graphical
>user interface for data manipulation using the powerful `tidyr`, `dplyr`,
>and `tibble` libraries. It is designed to help users reshape data, handle
>missing values, and manage nested data structures—core tasks for achieving
>"Tidy Data"—without writing complex code manually.
>60 rk.traminer 0.0.5
>rk.traminer brings the power of Sequence Analysis (Life-course
>trajectories) to the RKWard GUI. It provides a highly optimized,
>user-friendly interface for the gold-standard TraMineR package. By
>integrating ggseqplot and patchwork, it completely modernizes the visual
>output, allowing researchers in sociology, demography, and economics to
>easily construct state sequence objects and render stunning,
>publication-ready dashboards and complexity analysis.
>61 rk.transpose.df 0.01.5
>An RKWard plugin to transpose a data frame, turning rows into columns and
>columns into rows.
>62 rk.universe 0.1.3
>A meta-package that automatically installs, loads, and synchronizes a
>massive suite of 63+ RKWard GUI plugins for data manipulation, statistical
>analysis, and academic publishing.
>63 rk.weibull 0.0.2
>Is an external plug-in for RKWard that brings industrial-grade Reliability
>Engineering tools to the RKWard environment. It interfaces with the
>open-source `WeibullR` package to perform Life Data Analysis (Weibull
>Analysis) and Warranty Prediction, serving as a free alternative to
>software like ReliaSoft Weibull or Minitab's Reliability module.
>64 rk.word.cloud 0.0.1
>rk.word.cloud provides a seamless, point-and-click graphical interface
>inside RKWard to create visually stunning word clouds from text mining
>data. Acting as a unified GUI wrapper for the ggwordcloud, tm, and ggplot2
>packages, this plugin allows users to effortlessly turn a raw text Corpus
>into a publication-ready graphic without writing any R code.
>
>Thanks for your hard work.
>
>Best regards,
>Alfonso

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