Yihui Xie

Infobox scientist name = Yihui Xie native_name = 谢益辉 birth_name = native_name_lang = zh-cn image =

caption = birth_date = birth_place = Yichang, Hubei, China known_for = KnitrBookdown education = thesis_title = Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics thesis_url = https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13518/ thesis_year = 2013 doctoral_advisor = Dianne CookHeike Hofmann workplaces = Posit PBC fields = StatisticsStatistical graphicsStatistical computingReproducible research 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.

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.

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