Roland Schmidt
@zoowalk.bsky.social
Dad. PhD Comp Pol @CEU alumnus. Im Garten. #rstats
https://werk.statt.codes/
also at
@zoowalk@mastodon.social
https://werk.statt.codes/
also at
@zoowalk@mastodon.social
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pkgdown 2.2.0 now out — tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired) #rstats
pkgdown 2.2.0
The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website.
tidyverse.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
pkgdown 2.2.0 now out — tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired) #rstats
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New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around
Access and Manipulate Most Available Democracy Datasets
Archives a large number of democracy datasets, many of historical interest. It also provides a number of functions to download these datasets (where available) and determine membership of a country in...
xmarquez.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around
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Quarto friends! I need your help:
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
github.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Quarto friends! I need your help:
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
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📅 Save the Dates: UseR! 2026 The international #Rstats community will gather in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 from 6–9 July 2026 for the next edition of UseR!, the premier conference for users and developers of the R programming language.
Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html
Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html
October 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
📅 Save the Dates: UseR! 2026 The international #Rstats community will gather in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 from 6–9 July 2026 for the next edition of UseR!, the premier conference for users and developers of the R programming language.
Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html
Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html
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Anton Pelinka was Austria's most prominent political scientist, who was also one of my inspirations, combining insightful research with important public outreach. I met him a few times and was always humbled by his kind support.
He gave this interview less than 3 months ago.
R.I.P. Anton! 💔
He gave this interview less than 3 months ago.
R.I.P. Anton! 💔
Politikwissenschafter Anton Pelinka: "Im 'Club 2' konnte man frei ausreden"
Der bekannte österreichische Politikwissenschafter Anton Pelinka zieht im Gespräch mit seinem ehemaligen Moderatorenkollegen Peter Huemer politisch Bilanz
www.derstandard.at
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Anton Pelinka was Austria's most prominent political scientist, who was also one of my inspirations, combining insightful research with important public outreach. I met him a few times and was always humbled by his kind support.
He gave this interview less than 3 months ago.
R.I.P. Anton! 💔
He gave this interview less than 3 months ago.
R.I.P. Anton! 💔
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September 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Learn how to ask natural-language questions of your text data with #RStats and support Ukraine!
“RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials.
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
“RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials.
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
sites.google.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Learn how to ask natural-language questions of your text data with #RStats and support Ukraine!
“RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials.
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
“RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials.
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
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Just 3 days left until this workshop, don't miss your chance to register!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
❗️Our next workshop will be on September 11th, 6 pm CEST, on RAG in R with ragnar by @smachlis.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
September 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Just 3 days left until this workshop, don't miss your chance to register!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
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By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11
shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe
[Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac]
Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).
shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe
[Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac]
Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).
September 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🤯
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Help needed 🙏 If you're a HPC #RStats user on SGE/Slurm/Torque/PBS/LSF/OpenLava, could you pls try {future.batchtools} devel version per future.batchtools.futureverse.org/index.html#p...?
library(future.batchtools)
plan(batchtools_slurm)
f <- future(Sys.info())
value(f)
#parallel #hpc #future
library(future.batchtools)
plan(batchtools_slurm)
f <- future(Sys.info())
value(f)
#parallel #hpc #future
A Future API for Parallel and Distributed Processing using batchtools
Implementation of the Future API <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048> on top of the batchtools package. This allows you to process futures, as defined by the future package, in parallel out of the box, not only...
future.batchtools.futureverse.org
August 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Help needed 🙏 If you're a HPC #RStats user on SGE/Slurm/Torque/PBS/LSF/OpenLava, could you pls try {future.batchtools} devel version per future.batchtools.futureverse.org/index.html#p...?
library(future.batchtools)
plan(batchtools_slurm)
f <- future(Sys.info())
value(f)
#parallel #hpc #future
library(future.batchtools)
plan(batchtools_slurm)
f <- future(Sys.info())
value(f)
#parallel #hpc #future
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Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
NEW -
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
August 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.
dear #rstats users debugging in #vscode - how to get the data viewer opened inside an editor tab (and not outside of vs code in a "raw" window). the workaround describe e.g. here does not with me... many thanks!
yohann-data.fr/posts/debugv...
@yosky.bsky.social (thx for the great blog post)
yohann-data.fr/posts/debugv...
@yosky.bsky.social (thx for the great blog post)
The recipe to debug your R code in VSCode – Yohann’s blog
yohann-data.fr
August 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
dear #rstats users debugging in #vscode - how to get the data viewer opened inside an editor tab (and not outside of vs code in a "raw" window). the workaround describe e.g. here does not with me... many thanks!
yohann-data.fr/posts/debugv...
@yosky.bsky.social (thx for the great blog post)
yohann-data.fr/posts/debugv...
@yosky.bsky.social (thx for the great blog post)
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🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....
ellmer 0.3.0
The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.
www.tidyverse.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....
hello excel dark mode, very happy to finally see you!
July 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
hello excel dark mode, very happy to finally see you!
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Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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You can now use @type and @mcp in your #rstats package documentation to generate an MCP from your functions on devtools::document().
github.com/devOpifex/mcpr
github.com/devOpifex/mcpr
GitHub - devOpifex/mcpr: Model Context Protocol server and client for R
Model Context Protocol server and client for R. Contribute to devOpifex/mcpr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
You can now use @type and @mcp in your #rstats package documentation to generate an MCP from your functions on devtools::document().
github.com/devOpifex/mcpr
github.com/devOpifex/mcpr
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📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN www.ekotov.pro/rdocdump/
Make sure your request to LLM for writing R code is using the latest package documentation and that LLM understands even the internal package logic.
Make sure your request to LLM for writing R code is using the latest package documentation and that LLM understands even the internal package logic.
rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
www.ekotov.pro
June 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN www.ekotov.pro/rdocdump/
Make sure your request to LLM for writing R code is using the latest package documentation and that LLM understands even the internal package logic.
Make sure your request to LLM for writing R code is using the latest package documentation and that LLM understands even the internal package logic.
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Das neue DOSSIER-Magazin »Ungarn – eine Reise ans Ende der Demokratie« ist ab sofort im Vorverkauf erhältlich!
Wir widmen unserem Nachbarland einen investigativen Reiseführer, denn die Donau flussabwärts spitzt sich die Lage zu. Jetzt bestellen: crowdfunding.dossier.at
Wir widmen unserem Nachbarland einen investigativen Reiseführer, denn die Donau flussabwärts spitzt sich die Lage zu. Jetzt bestellen: crowdfunding.dossier.at
June 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Das neue DOSSIER-Magazin »Ungarn – eine Reise ans Ende der Demokratie« ist ab sofort im Vorverkauf erhältlich!
Wir widmen unserem Nachbarland einen investigativen Reiseführer, denn die Donau flussabwärts spitzt sich die Lage zu. Jetzt bestellen: crowdfunding.dossier.at
Wir widmen unserem Nachbarland einen investigativen Reiseführer, denn die Donau flussabwärts spitzt sich die Lage zu. Jetzt bestellen: crowdfunding.dossier.at
😳🥳
Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps.
Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai.
pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr")
purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/
Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai.
pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr")
purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/
Functional Programming Tools
A complete and consistent functional programming toolkit for R.
purrr.tidyverse.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
😳🥳
There is no "native" way to share a Google task list with e.i. a group of collaborators?
(I am aware of tasksboards). How can that be? #google
(I am aware of tasksboards). How can that be? #google
May 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There is no "native" way to share a Google task list with e.i. a group of collaborators?
(I am aware of tasksboards). How can that be? #google
(I am aware of tasksboards). How can that be? #google
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Now out in an issue with proper page numbers🎉
Women in parliament, particularly in left parties, adapt their speaking style over the years to fit the male-dominated hierarchies of parties and parliaments
With the best coauthors one could ask for @dmpullan.bsky.social @jwaeckerle.bsky.social
Women in parliament, particularly in left parties, adapt their speaking style over the years to fit the male-dominated hierarchies of parties and parliaments
With the best coauthors one could ask for @dmpullan.bsky.social @jwaeckerle.bsky.social
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Women in male-dominated organizations often must adopt more stereotypical masculine traits to advance within those hierarchies. While politics, historically male-dominated, should induce women to ble...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Now out in an issue with proper page numbers🎉
Women in parliament, particularly in left parties, adapt their speaking style over the years to fit the male-dominated hierarchies of parties and parliaments
With the best coauthors one could ask for @dmpullan.bsky.social @jwaeckerle.bsky.social
Women in parliament, particularly in left parties, adapt their speaking style over the years to fit the male-dominated hierarchies of parties and parliaments
With the best coauthors one could ask for @dmpullan.bsky.social @jwaeckerle.bsky.social
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Legal crackdowns on NGOs are a signal of worsening human rights abuses www.andrewheiss.com/research/art...
April 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Legal crackdowns on NGOs are a signal of worsening human rights abuses www.andrewheiss.com/research/art...
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The Israeli entrepreneur Shalev Hulio gained notoriety for designing Pegasus, the spyware used by governments to hack journalists and dissidents. Today, he is selling a new AI cyber security tool to European states and corporations. His secret asset? Austria’s former leader Sebastian Kurz. [Thread]
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Israeli entrepreneur Shalev Hulio gained notoriety for designing Pegasus, the spyware used by governments to hack journalists and dissidents. Today, he is selling a new AI cyber security tool to European states and corporations. His secret asset? Austria’s former leader Sebastian Kurz. [Thread]