The palmerpenguins R package provides a modern, approachable dataset containing body size measurements for three penguin species that nest on islands throughout the Palmer Archipelago, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Since palmerpenguins was released on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) in July 2020, the package has been downloaded over 340,000 times, was quickly adapted for use in other languages including Python’s seaborn package and Google’s TensorFlow datasets, and has become a go-to option for data science and statistics educators …