The application design offers the possibility of using the graphic tools as well as ignoring many of them and using the program as integrated development environment.

It also has a file viewer, and data set editing windows, display of the contents of the variables, help, command log and HTML output.

It also offers components that help in code editing and direct order execution, such as the script window and the R console, where you can enter complete commands or programs as you would in the original R text interface.

Thanks to its add-ons system RKWard constantly expands the number of functions that can be accessed without writing the code directly.

The results of the computations are formatted and presented as HTML, making it possible, with a single click and drag, to export tables and graphs to, for example, office suites.