Roland Schmidt

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

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! 💔

Ich kannte Pelinka persön. nicht wirklich näher, aber er war d Grund warum ich in IBK damals PoWi - nach 1 Vorlesung mit ihm - belegte. Eye opener. Viel später, nach Wiederlesen v einigen seiner Bücher, PhD an d CEU in Budapest. P Teil meines panels. Prägend & bereichernd ü d Akadem hinaus. Danke!!

look what you made me do

(#rstats code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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

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)

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-...

Just 3 days left until this workshop, don't miss your chance to register!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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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

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)

Haven't worked with RAG, but there's a pertaining blog post

support.anthropic.com/en/articles/...

Did you give Claude Code a try? Comes with Claude pro for 17 USD a month...

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.

🐘 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....

screenshot of excel's new dark view mode

hello excel dark mode, very happy to finally see you!

googleway: Accesses Google Maps APIs to Retrieve Data and Plot Maps symbolixau.r-universe.dev/googleway
, I think, can do the job but it requires an API key. There is a free tier though.

Though there is a free tier with Gemini flash, I think.

A DuckDB-Backed Version of dplyr A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for performance. Offers convenient utilities for working with in-memory and larger-than-memory data while retaining full dplyr compatibility.

Maybe duckplyr as an alternative tool?
duckplyr.tidyverse.org

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

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.

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

Used the cosine approach in a blog post a while ago. Maybe of help. (sorry, not meant to be self-promotion...🙄)
werk.statt.codes/posts/2020-1...

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

📝🗃️ 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.

Illustration des Covers der investigativen Publikation „DOSSIER Mini“, Ausgabe Nr. 17 (Juni 2025), mit dem Titel »Ungarn – Eine Reise ans Ende der Demokratie«. Das Cover zeigt die stilisierte Silhouette von Viktor Orbán, umrahmt von bunten Blumen und Pflanzen im folkloristischen Stil. Unten steht: Jetzt bestellen: crowdfunding.dossier.at. Der Hintergrund ist türkis.

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

May I ask what you find more helpful when using Claude code in contrast to e.g. copilot with openAi in vs code. I am only starting with Claude code and look for good practices. Thx.

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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

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...

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

Blimey... Didn't know about notebooklm

Pakistan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries | Humanitarian Dataset | HDX Pakistan administrative level 0-3 boundaries (COD-AB) dataset. The date that these administrative boundaries were established is unknown. NOTE: The geoservice layer and the pak_admbndl_admALL_ocha_...

Maybe

data.humdata.org/m/dataset/co...

Legal crackdowns on NGOs are a signal of worsening human rights abuses www.andrewheiss.com/research/art...