Ella Kaye

Ella Kaye

@ellakaye.co.uk

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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R Consortium
@rconsortium.bsky.social

You don't have to be a C programmer to contribute to R. R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch. r-consortium.org/posts/how-do... #rstats #opensource #RConsortium

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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)

forwards.github.ioR package development workshop – Forwards R Package Development Workshop
R Forwards@r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

💻 Forwards Package Development Workshop 2026 A free short course on how to create an R package. Choose your cohort: 1️⃣ Every other Monday from May 18, 10:00-12:00 UTC: https://forwards.github.io/package-dev/workshops/may-july-2026-cohort-1.html OR 2️⃣ Every other Wednesday from May 20, 14 […]

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Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

I confirm - we are delightful! And also really passionate about contributing to base R. Can't wait for this!

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social

BASE R GIRLIES OUR TIME HAS COME Come hang with us, ask Ella questions (I know Isabella and I will), and learn something new. Don't think you use base R? You use it pretty much each and every time you use R! #baseRgirly Also, we're a delight ✨

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social

We have a Lab coming up March 31st on contributing to base R 😍 and I'm so excited about it 🥹 @ellakaye.co.uk will be our lab manager! IT'S #baseRgirly TIME, Y'ALL!! #rstats

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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!

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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...

github.comGitHub - EllaKaye/localtime: Quarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezoneQuarto shortcode to display times in the reader's local timezone - EllaKaye/localtime
Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

This was my first serious project using Claude Code and I'm very impressed! That said, I don't know Lua or JavaScript, so I'd be intrigued for someone who is familiar with those to look at the code and give me a human take on it. It's still experimental. Feedback and suggestions most welcome!

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

Come join us!

rainbowR@rainbowr.org

Last few hours to register for the rainbowR conference! Join us for inspiring, informative, and entertaining talks, and to connect with the community of LGBTQ+ folks and allies whompive #RStats 🌈💻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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.

lucyfaithfull.org.ukData Scientist/Analyst - Lucy Faithfull FoundationWe 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

🌈 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

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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.

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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.

Ella Kaye@ellakaye.co.uk

🎉 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...

software.ac.ukRSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability InstituteRound 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...
Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

🎉 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...

software.ac.ukRSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability InstituteRound 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...
Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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

contributor.r-project.orgR Contributor Site – R ContributorA site for people interested in contributing to R core - the code and documentation that gets distributed as base R.
We Are RLadies+@weare.rladies.org

Today I'm talking about contributing to base R 💻 Are you curious about how to improve the language we love, at its core? This is a thread for you! #RStats

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Verena Kunz
@verenakunz.bsky.social

Always wanted to learn how to create your own R Packages? Then take a look at this upcoming workshop with @ellakaye.co.uk ⬇️

GESIS Training@gesistraining.bsky.social

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

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

Unit tests deemed unnecessary

Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: "Statistical analysis used SPSS"

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rainbowR
@rainbowr.org

📣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...

docs.google.comInterested 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...
Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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

ellakaye.github.ioCalculate and Track Dates and Medications During PregnancyProvides 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

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.

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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

ellakaye.github.ioCalculate and Track Dates and Medications During PregnancyProvides 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

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.

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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).

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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

ellakaye.github.ioCalculate and Track Dates and Medications During PregnancyProvides functionality for calculating pregnancy-related dates and tracking medications during pregnancy and fertility treatment. Calculates due dates from various starting points including last menst...
Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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.

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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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RLadies+
@rladies.org

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

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R Contributors
@r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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. https://contributor.r-project.org

contributor.r-project.orgR Contributor Site – R ContributorA 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

🌈 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

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

@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 💜

blog.djnavarro.netPretty little CLIs – Notes from a data witchHow 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
Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

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!

Ella Kaye
@ellakaye.co.uk

Thanks for the mention @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com

Chris Brownlie@bsky.chrisbrownlie.com

this week in #rstats 🎆 - {quickr} Fortran transpiling 💨@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy - Positron out of beta 🎂 @posit.co - C for R users 👩‍💻 @rladies.org @ellakaye.co.uk - {zap} for efficient serialising ⚡ @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy and more!👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...

linkedin.comThis week in R (2025-07-04)Positron's first stable release; contributing to base R with C; {zap} for efficient serialisation/compression; transpiling to Fortran with {quickr}, and more!