Yihui Xie

Yihui Xie (Chinese: 谢益辉) is a Chinese statistician, data scientist and software engineer for RStudio.[3][1][4] 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.[5]

Yihui Xie
Born
谢益辉

China
Alma materRenmin University of China (BS)
Iowa State University (PhD)
Known forKnitr
Bookdown
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Statistical graphics
Statistical computing
Reproducible research[1]
InstitutionsRStudio
ThesisDynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics (2013)
Doctoral advisorDianne Cook
Heike Hofmann[2]
Websiteyihui.org

Early life and education

Yihui Xie graduated from Renmin University of China with a bachelor's degree in Economics and master's degree in Statistics. He earned his Ph.D from Iowa State University supervised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.[2][6]

Career and research

Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animation in graphics through R.[7] He then authored the knitr package which makes reproducible research available from R. Since 2013, he has been working with RStudio, the makers of an Integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language.

Awards and honors

Xie was awarded the John M. Chambers statistical software award by American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2009 for the R package animation.[8]

Publications

His publications[1][4][9] include:

  • R Markdown Cookbook[10]
  • R Markdown: The Definitive Guide[11]
  • blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown[12]
  • bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown[13]
  • Dynamic Documents with R and knitr[5]
  • animation: An R Package for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods[7]

References
  1. Yihui Xie publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Yihui Xie at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Yihui Xie Interview at UseR". datascience.la. 2014.
  4. Yihui Xie publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. Xie, Yihui (2015). Dynamic Documents with R and knitr (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-1498716963.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. "John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award". stat-computing.org.
  9. Yihui Xie at DBLP Bibliography Server
  10. Xie, Yihui; Dervieux, Christophe; Riederer, Emily (2020). R Markdown Cookbook. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-0367563837.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Xie, Yihui (2016). bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series. ISBN 978-1138700109.


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