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Data scientist and developer of R software
Yihui Xie (
Chinese: 谢益辉) is a Chinese statistician,
data scientist and
software engineer who formerly worked for
Posit PBC.
[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]
Early life and education
Yihui Xie graduated from
Renmin University of China with a bachelor's degree in
Economics[
citation needed] and master's degree in
Statistics.[
when?] 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. Between 2013 and 2023, 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
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a
b
c
Yihui Xie publications indexed by
Google Scholar
- ^
a
b
Yihui Xie at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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^
"Yihui Xie Interview at UseR". datascience.la. 2014.
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a
b
Yihui Xie publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^
a
b Xie, Yihui (2015). Dynamic Documents with R and knitr (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series.
ISBN
978-1498716963.
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^ 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.
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a
b 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.
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^
"John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award". stat-computing.org.
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^
Yihui Xie at
DBLP Bibliography Server
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^ Xie, Yihui; Dervieux, Christophe; Riederer, Emily (2020).
R Markdown Cookbook. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series.
ISBN
978-0367563837.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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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