Happy holidays! 🎄 I snuck in a {btw} release just before CRAN went on vacation for the year. {btw} is an #RStats package full of tools for LLMs, including a new tool for running R code. Here's a quick demo using `btw_app()` to create a quick festive ggplot2 from holiday movie titles. Cheers! 🧑‍🎄

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

New #positron release, new shortcut. #rstats 🎉

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

can #google pls ask gemini to finally introduce the ability into #googletasks to 1) easily share tasks with other g users; 2) archive todo lists, and 3) provide a view which shows all tasks across lists. thank you.

{ripper} dissects your #Quarto documents, extracting code blocks by language and leaving executable scripts behind. Supports #rstats, #python, #julia, and 13 other victims. For those who never stopped celebrating Halloween. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/ripper/ 💻 github.com/coatless-qua...

Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...

#rstats user: I am trying to get #Gemini CLI running R scripts, but fail "due to issues with how the command line (powershell) parses and passes the R code to Rscript.exe". Instead G creates a separate file which is then triggered. This is quite different to Claude Code. Am i missing sth?

Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours? The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online! Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated #RStats and #Python, with a focus on next-gen tools & #AI integration. See the info here: posit.co/blog/talks-a...

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

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

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?

📅 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

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! 💔

look what you made me do (#rstats code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

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

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)

🐘 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!

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

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

📝🗃️ 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.

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

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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

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

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

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]

-How Democracies Die (2018)

A must read for anyone interested in Hungary under Orban.

Hungary's decision today to exit the International Criminal Court is a brazen declaration that the Orbán government refuses to be bound by global standards on war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide. #Illiberalism #FarRight #RuleOflLaw #Democracy #WarCrimes #ICC #Orban #Netanyahu #Trump 1/7

It's about time for this starter pack: Hungary, rule of law, human rights, media freedom bsky.app/starter-pack...

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025 The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky 🧵1(3)

I appreciate the sincerity: they want to end EU. Paradoxically, the iitiative comes from the two countries that benefited most.

The share of the world economy under weaker rule of law has been growing in this century. Towards minimum viable rule of law for growth? The arc of the evolutionary universe is long, but it bends towards the minimum viable.

How on earth does Albert have only 500 followers on bluesky...? The man delivers top quality #rstats content on a weekly basis, be it his newsletter or yt videos. I have no idea how he manages to do it, but highly recommended to everyone working with R. (I don't know him personally btw).

Hello, you are most welcome to join this free webinar of mine, connected to my upcoming #comparative #researchdesigns full course (7-11 July) - & connected case-based & comparative courses - at the @methodsnet.bsky.social MethodsNET Summer School with @weareceu.bsky.social CEU in stunning Vienna :-)

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

The CRAN Cookbook is a complementary self-service guide to discover solutions to common CRAN submission issues. contributor.r-project.org/cran-cookbook/ #rstats #cran

Yes!!! 👏👏👏👏 @teunbrand.bsky.social github.com/tidyverse/gg...

My unit (Department of Public Policy at CEU, Vienna) is hiring!We’re looking for candidates with excellent skills in quantitative methods (specifically text mining, natural language processing, machine learning). Link to full call: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A... Happy to answer questions!

ellmer (formerly known as elmer) is now on CRAN! ellmer makes it easy to chat with LLM models from a variety of providers and includes support for streaming responses, tool calling and structured data extraction: ellmer.tidyverse.org #rstats

A serious question: how will comparative politics respond to the problem of under-powered research (see below)? I hope the the field will lean back into our strength (comparative case study) but I worry it will only tip toward big data. 1: from JOP: shorturl.at/aVJB2 2: from APSR: shorturl.at/sbPUi

is there a way to make a shiny app into an executable file that launches on someone's local machine when clicked? #rstats #shiny