I had the pleasure to meet Aleix Pol and Stu Jarvis at Akademy. They guided me the way to KDE EDU and scientific apps for KDE.
Weeks later I am sitting in my office doing some statistics. The funny thing is, that your brain sometimes is useful and I remembered an app called rkwrd or something.
My friend google told me that it is called RKWard and that it is not a KDE Application. It is an application based on kdelibs (it I see that right).
At home I fired up my kBook and installed the packages for r and RKWard. After a quick look into some of the nice tutorials I could do my first analysis and the linear regression I wanted to do. Brilliant. What a fantastic application. And I had such a hard time during my studies calculating statics by hand.
The other advantage is that I am reminded that I wanted to invest more time for the promotion of KDE EDU (inculding scientific applications). Why has a day only 24h?
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Cantor also supports R, IIRC.
I have checked Cantor (the app not the webpage). And of cause you are right. There is R support for cantor. Another proof that I should work more on KDE EDU promo.
What makes an app a KDE app? It's an interesting question and one we tried to leave to the application authors with the various software label choices.
I suppose a KDE app is one that is made by KDE, so if the author(s) thinks they are part of KDE then their app is a KDE app.
I have the impression I'm tying myself in knots here :-)
Anyway, I haven't enjoyed/suffered R yet, but I know a lot of people that do so having options in KDE software is great.
It seems there are the canton-r-backend packages missing in openSUSE. :-(
Stuard: imho a KDE app is from a KDE community member and he should be organized within a app module and user the KDE infrastructure. Then the app will be shipped and PACKED with KDE software (in the same repo). Otherwise you have to search for it.
apol: I didn't succeed. I could not use R with cantor :-(
Move to Bajor, there the day has 26 hours.
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