diff --git a/docs/environment.yml b/docs/environment.yml
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+name: fastparquet-docs
+dependencies:
+    - numba
+    - pandas
+    - numpy
+    - thriftpy>=0.3.6
diff --git a/readthedocs.yml b/readthedocs.yml
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+conda:
+    file: docs/environment.yml