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

[DES Alfonso Cano Robles]

I have not thought about it, but I definitely will think about rk.tinytable
and rk.data.table now. In the meantime, I would love to hear your feedback
or any suggestions you might have about this one:

> https://github.com/AlfCano/rk.tinyplot

Cheers!
Alfonso



El mar, 13 de oct. de 2026 9:45 a. m., DES Alfonso Cano Robles <
alfonsociologo at gmail.com> escribió:

>
> I have not thought about it, but I definitely will think about
> rk.tinytable and rk.data.table now. In the meantime, I would love to hear
> your feedback or any suggestions you might have about this one:
>
> > https://github.com/AlfCano/rk.tinyplot
>
> Cheers!
> Alfonso
> El lun, 12 oct 2026 a la(s) 11:28 p.m., stefan_roediger at gmx.de (
> stefan_roediger at gmx.de) escribió:
>
>> That is cool
>> Will have a look during the next days
>>
>>
>> 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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> Dr. Alfonso Cano Robles
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>
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