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RKWard is meant to become an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R-language. R is a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistical functions. RKWard makes R programming easier and faster, by providing a graphical frontend that can be used by unexperienced users (thanks to easy-to-use dialog boxes) as well as experts (which are attracted by the integrated development environement proposed by RKWard).
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Pros
Pro KDE native
Available in the OS repository (at least for openSUSE).
Pro Cross-platform and easy to use
Pro Very flexible and snappy UI
Pro Can be extended by own plugins
Cons
Con The development version has support for RMarkdown
Con Lack of notebook with R markdown
This is a nice feature from RStudio that I miss.