Yihui Xie () is a Chinese software developer who previously worked for Posit PBC. He is the principal author of the open-source software package Knitr for dynamic report generation in the R programming language, and has also written the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr.
Early life and education Xie is a native of Yichang, Hubei, China.
Xie received a Bachelor of Economics in 2006 and a Master of Economics in 2009, both in statistics and from the Renmin University of China. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in statistics from Iowa State University in 2013. His doctoral advisors at Iowa State University were Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.
Career Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animation in graphics through R. He then authored the knitr package which makes reproducible research available from R. Between 2013 and 2023, he worked with RStudio, the makers of an Integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language.
Xie was awarded the John M. Chambers statistical software award by American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2009 for the R package animation.
Publications His publications include: R Markdown Cookbook R Markdown: The Definitive Guide blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown Dynamic Documents with R and knitr animation: An R Package for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods
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