Yihui Xie ( zh, 谢益辉, labels=no) is a Chinese

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who previously worked for

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. He is the principal author of the

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package

Knitr knitr is a software engine for dynamic report generation with R. It is a package in the programming language R that enables integration of R code into LaTeX, LyX, HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, and reStructuredText documents. The purpose of knitr is ...

for data analysis in the

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, and has also written the book ''Dynamic Documents with R and knitr''.

Early life and education

Xie is a native of

Yichang Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

, China. Xie received a

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in 2006 and a

Master of Economics The Master of Economics (MEcon or MEc) is a postgraduate master's degree in economics comprising training in economic theory, econometrics, and/or applied economics. The degree is also offered as an MS or MSc, MA or MCom in economics; var ...

in 2009, both in statistics and from the

Renmin University of China The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The ...

. He received a

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in statistics from

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

in 2013. His doctoral advisors at Iowa State University were Di Cook and

Heike Hofmann Heike Hofmann (born 16 April 1972) is a statistician and Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Nebraska–Lincoln and was previously at Iowa State University. Education She earned an MSc in Mathematics, with a minor in Co ...

Career

Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animation in graphics through R. He then authored the

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package which makes reproducible research available from R. Between 2013 and 2023, he has been working with

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, the makers of an

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(IDE) for the

. Xie was awarded the John M. Chambers statistical software award by

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(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''

References

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