Yihui Xie


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 data analysis in the R programming language, and has also written the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr.
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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 has been working with RStudio, the makers of an Integrated development environment for the R programming language.
Xie was awarded the John M. Chambers statistical software award by American Statistical Association in 2009 for the R package animation.

Publications

His publications include:R Markdown CookbookR Markdown: The Definitive Guideblogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdownbookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R MarkdownDynamic Documents with R and knitr