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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 🌈 https://ellakaye.co.uk
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · Nov 5
Hello! 👋

I am a Research Software Engineer working with @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
on “Sustainability and EDI in the R Project”. I love #RStats and the R #community!

I run @rainbowr.bsky.social (with @oberman.bsky.social )

More at ellakaye.co.uk

Looking forward to connecting!
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The personal website of Ella Kaye
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 4d
Ooh, I’ve had this issue too, with my personal website, which is deployed with netlify, and it never even occurred to me there was a solution to it, other than a note in the GitHub repo telling people what they need to change!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 16d
Absolutely love the T-shirt!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 17d
Thanks for sharing! The slides are quite sparse - there was a lot more that I said! For more above the package and how it works, see ellakaye.github.io/pregnancy
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 18d
📣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...
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 · 20d
Aww, thank you!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 20d
Here’s a link to more about R Dev Days, organised by the R Contribution Working Group. #RStats contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev...
R Dev Days – R Contributor
Day-length events for new and experienced contributors to work collaboratively on contributions to base R
contributor.r-project.org
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 20d
R Dev Days (for base R contribution) are a lot of fun and hugely productive! We just had one in Warwick with a fantastic group of both new and experienced contributors, including this wonderful group of @rladies.org.
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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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 21d
nooooooo! When/where is the soccer conference?
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 22d
@tanho.ca, do we get to be nerdy friends at Shiny in Production again this year? I hope so!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 22d
Thank you! I like the suggestion. I remember that size/fruit feature from one of the popular apps that I also used during my pregnancies and it is a cute thing to have 🥑
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
Thank you Shannon! Hope yours goes well today.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
Thank you Chris!
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
Aww, thanks Nathan. That means a lot to me.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
@cscheid.net at #PositConf2025, working to make #QuartoPub 100x faster 🤯🤯🤯🎉🎉🎉
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
Also, how cute is the hex! It's a collaboration between myself and Charles Freestone from WOW Design (also my brother-in-law). The hands are a trace from a photo of me holding my very pregnant belly.
Hex sticker for the pregnancy R package featuring a blue hexagonal border with stylized hands traced from a photo of a woman cradling her pregnant belly, positioned around the package name.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
I'm also keen to keep improving the package, so please do let me know if you have any issues or feature requests.

github.com/EllaKaye/pre...
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
So, if you are pregnant (or your partner is) or might be in the future, please do take it look 👶. The package offers functionality that differs from typical pregnancy apps and trackers (and with none of the data privacy concerns).
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
I'll have a blog post out before too long describing the package development process and the design decisions made along the way. I put a LOT of thought into this, because I want the package to be a pleasure to use.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
This raised some interesting challenges, e.g. how to handle different people's due dates so that they wouldn't have to enter them every time they called one of the functions (in my personal versions, these were hard-coded), and how to address the different users.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
This has been a deeply personal project. It started as a private package just for me, during my first pregnancy, and I had cause to reuse it again three years later, at which point I decided to generalise and expand it for wider release.
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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 23d
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
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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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 26d
The LLM tools book for R book by @liomys.mx is an excellent resource. luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
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R-Ladies @rladies.org · 28d
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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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 28d
So wonderful to see you Fonti and to meet you Emi!
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · Sep 10
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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