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Ella Kaye

@ellakaye.co.uk
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Senior Research Software Engineer at University of Warwick, working on sustainability and EDI in the R Project. SSI Fellow. I love #RStats, #QuartoPub and their communities. I also run @rainbowr.org, for LGBTQ+ folks who code in R 🌈 ellakaye.co.uk

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats
Graphic for upcoming R Core and R Foundation panel discussion - Oct 6, 2026
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Very excited to have this up and running! Are you interested in supporting The R Project? I look forward to chatting with you on our Zulip.
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New blog post by @ellakaye.co.uk and @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy: Zulip Chat for the R Project #RStats blog.r-project.org/2026/09/22/z...
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Zulip Chat for the R Project - The R Blog
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 01/09/2026
rainbowR Buddies 🌈👥 Sign up by Thursday Sept 3rd to be paired with a fellow LGBTQIA+ #RStats programmer via rainbowr.org/buddies Chat, code, learn, and build connection!
rainbowR Buddies!

- buddy pairs are randomly assigned
- opportunity to forge connection
- chat about R or anything else!

Sign-up by Thu Sept 3rd

More info and sign-up details at rainbowr.org/buddies
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/07/2026
We're excited that #rainbowR is at @user-conf.bsky.social this week. Keep an eye out for committee members @ellakaye.co.uk & @tinarozsos.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 If you're an LGBTQ+ coder looking for a friendly face, or you're curious to learn more about our community, please say hi👋 #useR2026 #RStats
Photographs of Ella and Tina smiling next to the useR! logo. Text reads "We're at useR! 2026"
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/06/2026
Are there any #rstats folks who use @tally.so for forms who would be willing to take the new {tallyr} R package for a spin? github.com/EllaKaye/tal... Created in a couple of hours this morning with Claude Code using Fable 5. Feedback most appreciated!
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GitHub - EllaKaye/tallyr: An R package interface to the Tally.so form builder API
An R package interface to the Tally.so form builder API - EllaKaye/tallyr
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 11/05/2026
I'm very much looking forward to being one of the instructors for cohort 1! Full details on the course website forwards.github.io/package-dev/ (then sign up to a cohort via the Workshops page)
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R package development workshop – Forwards R Package Development Workshop
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 04/05/2026
Thanks for the shout out @rfortherestofus.com and for highlighting localtime github.com/EllaKaye/loc...
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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 20/04/2026
R Dev Day @useR! 2026 (Warsaw, July 10): a free, hybrid event for contributing to base R. Places are limited; participants selected via self-nomination. Please complete the nomination form by April 24 🛠️ user2026.r-project.org/additional/r... #rstats #useR2026
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R Dev Day
R Core developer Martin Maechler working with Ella Kaye and Kelly Bodwin at an R Dev Day
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 31/03/2026
I confirm - we are delightful! And also really passionate about contributing to base R. Can't wait for this!
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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Did you know you (yes, YOU!) can contribute to base R? Base R is the foundation of everything #RStats. If you’ve ever found a bug or thought of an improvement, you can help shape the language. Join @ellakaye.co.uk on the Posit Data Science Lab tomorrow to learn how to get started! pos.it/dslab
Promotional graphic for a "Contributing to base R" event with Ella Kaye on Tuesday, March 31 @ 12 pm ET at pos.it/dslab. The background features a large blue R logo over faint grey statistical plots, including a scatter plot, histogram, and line graph.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/03/2026
CANNOT WAIT! We’re going from “what even is base R?” to fixing a bug in the C source code in under an hour. In a live demo. What could possibly go wrong? NOTHING! #RStats #baseRgirly
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/03/2026
Absolutely fantastic news for #RStats 🎉 Heather has been integral in efforts to secure the long-term sustainability of The R Project, and building the R community, especially for folks from groups underrepresented in software. She's also an excellent R contributor herself. Very well deserved!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 09/03/2026
Announcing localtime, a #QuartoPub extension for displaying times in the reader's local timezone e.g. {{< localtime 2026-03-09 20:30 UTC >}} will render as 2026-03-09 21:30 for someone in CET. Has nice formatting options, and automatically accounts for daylight saving. github.com/EllaKaye/loc...
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GitHub - EllaKaye/localtime: Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone
Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone - EllaKaye/localtime
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 22/02/2026
Come join us!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 01/02/2026
The brilliant charity, Lucy Faithfull Foundation, is recruiting a Data Scientist/Analyst, to support their mission of preventing child sexual abuse. UK-based, Edinburgh or Espsom (hybrid). www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk/careers/data... Q&A webinar about the role, team and context on Feb 3rd 12-1pm UTC.
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Data Scientist/Analyst - Lucy Faithfull Foundation
We really welcome informal conversations with prospective candidates about the role and the charity in advance of the deadline. Please contact Tom Fisher, Director of Research and Impact on 0795867190...
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 14/01/2026
🌈 rainbowR meet-up & AGM*: Wednesday Jan 28th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈 - vote on constitution* - elect leadership committee* - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
Zoom meet-up and AGM
Weds Jan 28th, 4:30pm UTC
- vote on constitution
- elect leadership committee
- connect with community members
- R chat and informal 'show and tell' 

More info and sign-up details at rainbowr.org/meetups
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New! Ella Kaye on the R Contributors project—R Dev Days, office hours, and how GitHub helps lower barriers to contributing to base R - plus a “learn with joy” story and history of rainbowR for LGBTQ+ folk who code in R r-consortium.org/posts/contri... @ellakaye.co.uk #rstats #opensource
picture of people from R Project Sprint, University of Warwick, 2023
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 05/01/2026
Is there an issue with #RStats CRAN submissions at present? I submitted an update of a package a couple of days ago, got an email, ticked the boxes to confirm, clicked to send then the screen went blank and I haven't heard anything since. Now I can't even open the link from the original email.
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
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RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/12/2025
Huge congratulations to @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy for putting together a fantastic team of collaborators and a brilliant proposal. I'm so happy to be a co-lead on this project, continuing to work with Heather and many others on the sustainability of the language and community we love.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/12/2025
🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
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RSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability Institute
Round 1 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund awarded just under £3 million to 13 projects selected for their potential to deliver high impact, value for money, feasibility, and quality. The funde...
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 09/12/2025
I wrote a long thread about contributing to base R, highlighting the resources and opportunities provided by the R Contribution Working Group. contributor.r-project.org #RStats
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R Contributor Site – R Contributor
A site for people interested in contributing to R core - the code and documentation that gets distributed as base R.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 09/12/2025
I'm R-Ladies RoCur this week - follow at @weare.rladies.org. I'll be posting about contributing to base R, the joy of R community, @rainbowr.org, Forwards, R packages (mine and my favourites), Research Software Engineering and whatever else I think of over the next few days!
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/11/2025
🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org
conference.rainbowr.org
– rainbowR conference
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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Always wanted to learn how to create your own R Packages? Then take a look at this upcoming workshop with @ellakaye.co.uk ⬇️
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 13/10/2025
Unit tests deemed unnecessary
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 22/09/2025
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
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Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 17/09/2025
@cscheid.net at #PositConf2025, working to make #QuartoPub 100x faster 🤯🤯🤯🎉🎉🎉
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 17/09/2025
After 7.5 years in development (on-and-off), I am beyond excited to announce the release of the #RStats {pregnancy} package for tracking dates and medications in pregnancy and fertility treatment! There's a lightning talk about it at #PositConf2025 at 1pm EDT today. ellakaye.github.io/pregnancy
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Calculate and Track Dates and Medications During Pregnancy
Provides functionality for calculating pregnancy-related dates and tracking medications during pregnancy and fertility treatment. Calculates due dates from various starting points including last menst...
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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 12/09/2025
R Developer Day at University of Warwick brought together R-Ladies from around the world 🌎. Spaces like this remind us how powerful our global community is when we learn, collaborate and build together. Thanks to Heather Turner for making this possible 💜 #RDevDay #rladies
“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Packages are essential to the #rstats ecosystem for sharing code, data, and documentation. Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25
GESIS Workshop
R Package Development
26 to 28 November / Online
Ella Kaye (University of Warwick)
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 03/09/2025
Once again, @davisvaughan.bsky.social's extrachecks have saved me from a likely CRAN rejection for an upcoming #RStats package submission. Thanks Davis! github.com/DavisVaughan...
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GitHub - DavisVaughan/extrachecks
Contribute to DavisVaughan/extrachecks development by creating an account on GitHub.
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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025
The R Contributor Site is now in #QuartoPub! Check-out the new look, and all we do to support contributors (and aspiring contributors) to base #RStats, including events, tutorials and demos, and a Slack group. contributor.r-project.org
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R Contributor Site – R Contributor
A site for people interested in contributing to R core - the code and documentation that gets distributed as base R.
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 13/08/2025
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday August 27th, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 07/08/2025
@djnavarro.net just came across your blog post blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-0... and it contains the solution to exactly the problem I was having - trying to get {cli} messages to format nicely in Quarto output. Thank you for figuring this out and taking the time to write it up and share 💜
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Pretty little CLIs – Notes from a data witch
How to make a gorgeous command line interface in R using the cli package. Somewhere along the way I accidentally learned about ANSI control codes, which strikes me as unfortunate
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 31/07/2025
Today is my last day as a Research Software Engineer. From tomorrow, my promotion kicks in and I'll be a Senior Research Software Engineer!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 11/07/2025
Tidying my bookcase. I knew I had two copies of 'Modern Applied Statistics with S' but didn't realise that one used to belong to Brian Ripley and the other is signed by Bill Venables. Unfortunately I don't have the 3.5" diskette!
Inside page of two books. One says 'B. D. Ripley 10/10.94' and the other says 'For Mohammed, all the best, Bill Venables, Feb 207'Two books: 'Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus' and 'Modern Applied Statistics with S, Fourth Edition' by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 04/07/2025
Thanks for the mention @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 03/07/2025
This was so much fun! Thank you R-Ladies Philly and @pipinghotdata.com for inviting and hosting me, and to those who attended for their time, interest, and thoughtful comments and questions.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23/06/2025
So excited for this! As well as ‘C for R users’ I’ll be talking about contributing to base R more generally, and doing a live demo of the R Dev Container. #RStats
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🔗 To register for a free ticket, visit: rss.org.uk/training-eve... @altealorenzo.bsky.social @rainbowr.org @ellakaye.co.uk #books #LGBTQ #data #statistics #classifications #categories #datascience #research #queer #queerdata
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Edinburgh
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R Forwards @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025
💻 Forwards Package Development Workshop A free short course on how to create an R package. Choose your cohort: 1️⃣ Every other Monday from June 2, 09:00-10:30 UTC: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qB… OR 2️⃣ Every other Tuesday from June 3, 14:30-16 […]
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Original post on hachyderm.io
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 08/05/2025
Thanks @njokinjuki.bsky.social for this wonderful endorsement of the @rainbowr.org buddies scheme 🌈👯‍♂️ rainbowr.org/buddies
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The buddy scheme – rainbowR
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 08/05/2025
One of the warmest and most empowering communities I’ve found in the R world is @rainbowr.org 💜 ✨ Their mission? To connect, support, and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. 🌈📊 #RStats #RLadies
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rainbowR
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Calling all #rstats friends in Australia/Oceania! Exciting news! Fonti Kar (@fontikar.bsky.social) and I are forming a "C Study Group for R Contributors" in 2025. It's like getting skills to help build the Millennium Falcon of programming languages! 1/n
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thanks! I did initially find it confusing (especially since this chart was adapted from one of my previous penguins plots). I ended up using the really helpful converter function by @ellakaye.co.uk to fix it for me: ellakaye.github.io/basepenguins/
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Convert Files that Use palmerpenguins to Work with datasets
From R 4.5.0, the datasets package includes the penguins and penguins_raw data sets popularised in the palmerpenguins package. basepenguins takes files that use the palmerpenguins package and converts...
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A quick plot for #TidyTuesday this week - celebrating the addition of the penguins data into base R 🐧 I used {ggdist} to plot the distribution of body weights with four different chart types in one! 📊 I couldn't quite decide whether I prefer the light or dark version💡 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Three box plot/density plot/rainfall plots showing body weight for three penguin species, with Gentoo significantly higher. Colours also show density, and species. Background is light with dark text.Three box plot/density plot/rainfall plots showing body weight for three penguin species, with Gentoo significantly higher. Colours also show density, and species. Background is dark with light text.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 14/04/2025
‘gait’ is only the second array in R’s datasets package! All the examples in #RStats help pages that used ‘iris3’ have now been replaced to use ‘gait’ or another built-in dataset. This is especially neat for ‘duplicated()’ because ‘gait’ features genuine duplication - one boy was measured twice.
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