Yihui Xie

Yihui Xie
谢益辉
Born
Yichang, Hubei, China
Alma mater
Known forKnitr
Bookdown
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Statistical graphics
Statistical computing
Reproducible research[1]
WorkplacesPosit PBC
ThesisDynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics (2013)
Dianne Cook
Heike Hofmann
Websiteyihui.org

Yihui Xie (谢益辉) is a Chinese software developer who previously worked for Posit PBC.[2][1][3] 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.[4]

Early life and education

Xie is a native of Yichang, Hubei, China.[5]

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.[6] His doctoral advisors at Iowa State University were Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.[7]

Career

Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animation in graphics through R.[8] 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.[9]

Publications

His publications[1][3][10] include:

  • R Markdown Cookbook[11]
  • R Markdown: The Definitive Guide[12]
  • blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown[13]
  • bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown[14]
  • Dynamic Documents with R and knitr[4]
  • animation: An R Package for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yihui Xie publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ "Yihui Xie Interview at UseR". datascience.la. 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  3. 1 2 Yihui Xie publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. 1 2 Xie, Yihui (2015). Dynamic Documents with R and knitr (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-1498716963.
  5. ↑ "关于 - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉". yihui.org (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-09-13. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  6. ↑ "简历 - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉". yihui.org (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-09-13. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  7. ↑ Xie, Yihui (2013). Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics. iastate.edu (PhD thesis). Iowa State University. doi:10.31274/etd-180810-3256. OCLC 880379367. ProQuest 1500559149. Archived from the original on 2024-09-13. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  8. 1 2 Xie, Yihui (2013). "animation: An R Package for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods". Journal of Statistical Software. 53 (1): 1–27. doi:10.18637/jss.v053.i01.
  9. ↑ "John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
  10. ↑ Yihui Xie at DBLP Bibliography Server
  11. ↑ Xie, Yihui; Dervieux, Christophe; Riederer, Emily (2020). R Markdown Cookbook. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-0367563837. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  12. ↑ Xie, Yihui; Allaire, J.J.; Grolemund, Garrett (2018). R Markdown: The Definitive Guide. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-1138359338. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  13. ↑ Xie, Yihui; Hill, Alison; Thomas, Amber (2017). blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-0815363729. Archived from the original on 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  14. ↑ Xie, Yihui (2016). bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-1138700109. Archived from the original on 2024-09-13. Retrieved 2017-12-12.


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