Yihui Xie

Yihui Xie (谢益辉) is a Chinese statistician, data scientist and software engineer who formerly worked for Posit PBC. 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.

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.

Career and research
Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animation in graphics through R. 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.

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