diff --git a/.azure/prepare.bash b/.azure/prepare.bash
index cd1c77da..d5a61dc5 100644
--- a/.azure/prepare.bash
+++ b/.azure/prepare.bash
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ mkdir -p "${R_LIBS_USER}"
 
 Rscript -e "install.packages(c('git2r', 'covr', 'withr', 'devtools', 'lintr', 'mockery'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org', lib='${R_LIBS_USER}')"
 Rscript -e "install.packages(c('DSI', 'metafor', 'meta'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org', lib='${R_LIBS_USER}')"
-Rscript -e "withr::with_libpaths(new = '${R_LIBS_USER}', devtools::install_github('datashield/dsBaseClient', ref='6.1.0'))"
+Rscript -e "withr::with_libpaths(new = '${R_LIBS_USER}', devtools::install_github('datashield/dsBaseClient', ref='v6.2-dev'))"
 cd "${BUILD_REPOSITORY_LOCALPATH}"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2fa71524..cadcf5c3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: dsHelper
 Type: Package
 Title: Helper Functions for Use with 'DataSHIELD'
-Version: 0.1.2.9000
+Version: 1.0.0.9000
 Description: Often we need to automate things with 'DataSHIELD'. These functions help to do that.
 Authors@R: 
   c(person(given= "Tim", 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Maintainer: Tim Cadman <t.cadman@bristol.ac.uk>
 Depends: 
   R (>= 3.5.0)
 Imports:
-  dsBaseClient (>= 6.1.0),
+  dsBaseClient (>= 6.2.0),
   dplyr (>= 1.0.2),
   tibble,
   purrr,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 884e9b69..2a30aab8 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export(dh.defineCases)
 export(dh.dropCols)
 export(dh.findVarsIndex)
 export(dh.getAnonPlotData)
+export(dh.getRmStats)
 export(dh.getStats)
 export(dh.lmTab)
 export(dh.lmeMultPoly)
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ importFrom(dplyr,summarize)
 importFrom(dplyr,ungroup)
 importFrom(dplyr,vars)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.Boole)
+importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.asFactorSimple)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.asNumeric)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.assign)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.cbind)
@@ -79,6 +81,9 @@ importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.reShape)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.replaceNA)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.rm)
 importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.scatterPlot)
+importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.summary)
+importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.tapply)
+importFrom(dsBaseClient,ds.tapply.assign)
 importFrom(magrittr,"%<>%")
 importFrom(metafor,rma)
 importFrom(purrr,cross2)
diff --git a/R/get-rm-stats.R b/R/get-rm-stats.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1c6b35b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/get-rm-stats.R
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+#' Produces descriptive statistics based on repeated measures data
+#' which it would be useful to report in papers.
+#'
+#' @importFrom dplyr %>% mutate across
+#' @importFrom dsBaseClient ds.summary ds.asFactorSimple ds.tapply.assign ds.tapply
+#'
+#' @param df datashield dataframe
+#' @param outcome name of outcome variable in df
+#' @param id_var name of id variable in df
+#' @param age_var name of age variable in df
+#' @param conns connection object for DataSHIELD backends
+#'
+#' @return a tibble containing the following columns:
+#'
+#' min_age: 5th percentile of age
+#' max_age: 95th percentile of age
+#' n_obs: total number of observations in data
+#' n_participants: total number of unique participants
+#' n_meas_5: 5th percentile of measurements per individual
+#' n_meas_med: median number of measurements per individual
+#' n_meas_95: 95th percentile of measurements per individual
+#'
+#' @export
+dh.getRmStats <- function(df = NULL, outcome = NULL, id_var = NULL, age_var = NULL, conns = NULL) {
+  . <- n_meas_5 <- n_meas_95 <- n_meas_med <- variable <- perc_5 <- perc_95 <- cohort <- min_age <- 
+    max_age <- valid_n <- NULL
+
+  if (is.null(df)) {
+    stop("Please provide the name of a datashield dataframe")
+  }
+
+  if (is.null(outcome)) {
+    stop("Please provide the name of your outcome variable")
+  }
+
+  if (is.null(id_var)) {
+    stop("Please provide the name of id variable in df")
+  }
+
+  if (is.null(age_var)) {
+    stop("Please provide the name of your age variable in df")
+  }
+
+  if (is.null(conns)) {
+    conns <- datashield.connections_find()
+  }
+
+  ## ---- First get overall stats for some of the easy ones -------------------------------------------
+  stats <- dh.getStats(
+    df = df,
+    vars = c(outcome, age_var),
+    conns = conns
+  )
+
+  ## ---- Age range of participants -------------------------------------------------------------------
+  age_ranges <- stats$continuous %>%
+    dplyr::filter(variable == age_var) %>%
+    mutate(
+      min_age = perc_5,
+      max_age = perc_95
+    ) %>%
+    dplyr::select(cohort, min_age, max_age)
+
+  ## ---- Total number of outcome measurements -------------------------------------
+  outcome_n <- stats$continuous %>%
+    dplyr::filter(variable == outcome) %>%
+    dplyr::select(cohort, n_obs = valid_n)
+
+
+  ## ---- Total number of unique participants ----------------------------------------
+
+  # First, we use ds.tapply.assign to summarise the number of observations for each
+  # subject. The length of this created object then gives us the number of subjects.
+
+  ds.asFactorSimple(paste0(df, "$", id_var), "id_fact", datasources = conns)
+
+  ds.tapply.assign(
+    X.name = "data$weight",
+    INDEX.names = "id_fact",
+    FUN.name = "N",
+    newobj = "id_summary",
+    datasources = conns
+  )
+
+  n_subjects <- DSI::datashield.aggregate(conns, call("lengthDS", "id_summary$N")) %>%
+    setNames(names(conns)) %>%
+    bind_rows() %>%
+    mutate(combined = rowSums(.)) %>%
+    pivot_longer(
+      cols = everything(),
+      names_to = "cohort",
+      values_to = "n_participants"
+    )
+
+  ## ---- Median number of weight measurements per child ----------------------------------------
+
+  # We can use the ds.quantileMean function with the object we created above to get the
+  # median number of measurements per child.
+
+  ds.asNumeric("id_summary$N", "id_summary_num", datasources = conns)
+
+  quants <- DSI::datashield.aggregate(conns, as.symbol("quantileMeanDS(id_summary_num)"))
+
+  weight_med_iqr <- quants %>%
+    bind_rows(.id = "cohort") %>%
+    select(cohort, "5%", "50%", "95%") %>%
+    rename(n_meas_med = "50%", n_meas_5 = "5%", n_meas_95 = "95%")
+
+  ## Get the combined version using weighted sum
+  lengths <- DSI::datashield.aggregate(conns, call("lengthDS", "id_summary_num"))
+  numNAs <- DSI::datashield.aggregate(conns, "numNaDS(id_summary_num)")
+
+  valid_n <- list(lengths, numNAs) %>% pmap(~ .x - .y)
+
+  weights <- unlist(valid_n) / sum(unlist(valid_n))
+
+  weighted_quant <- list(quants, weights) %>% pmap(~ .x * .y)
+
+  sum_quant <- weighted_quant %>%
+    pmap(function(...) {
+      sum(c(...))
+    }) %>%
+    bind_rows() %>%
+    rename(n_meas_med = "50%", n_meas_5 = "5%", n_meas_95 = "95%") %>%
+    mutate(cohort = "combined") %>%
+    select(cohort, n_meas_med, n_meas_5, n_meas_95)
+
+  quant_out <- bind_rows(weight_med_iqr, sum_quant)
+
+  ## ---- Create final output -------------------------------------------------------------------
+  out <- left_join(age_ranges, outcome_n, by = "cohort") %>%
+    left_join(., n_subjects, by = "cohort") %>%
+    left_join(., quant_out, by = "cohort")
+
+  return(out)
+}
diff --git a/R/tidy-env.R b/R/tidy-env.R
index 6e81ae0d..5aa11e4c 100644
--- a/R/tidy-env.R
+++ b/R/tidy-env.R
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ dh.tidyEnv <- function(obj = NULL, type = c("remove", "keep"), conns = NULL) {
       bind_rows()
 
     vars_tibble %>% pmap(function(cohort, value) {
-      ds.rm(x.name = value, datasources = conns[cohort])
+      ds.rm(x.names = value, datasources = conns[cohort])
     })
   }
 }
diff --git a/man/dh.getRmStats.Rd b/man/dh.getRmStats.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..12e8ab48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/dh.getRmStats.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/get-rm-stats.R
+\name{dh.getRmStats}
+\alias{dh.getRmStats}
+\title{Produces descriptive statistics based on repeated measures data
+which it would be useful to report in papers.}
+\usage{
+dh.getRmStats(
+  df = NULL,
+  outcome = NULL,
+  id_var = NULL,
+  age_var = NULL,
+  conns = NULL
+)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{df}{datashield dataframe}
+
+\item{outcome}{name of outcome variable in df}
+
+\item{id_var}{name of id variable in df}
+
+\item{age_var}{name of age variable in df}
+
+\item{conns}{connection object for DataSHIELD backends}
+}
+\value{
+a tibble containing the following columns:
+
+min_age: 5th percentile of age
+max_age: 95th percentile of age
+n_obs: total number of observations in data
+n_participants: total number of unique participants
+n_meas_5: 5th percentile of measurements per individual
+n_meas_med: median number of measurements per individual
+n_meas_95: 95th percentile of measurements per individual
+}
+\description{
+Produces descriptive statistics based on repeated measures data
+which it would be useful to report in papers.
+}