Yihui Xie

Yihui Xie is a Chinese statistician and data scientist . He is the main author of the open-source Knitr package for data analysis in the R programming language, and has also written the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr.^[1]^[2] He works as a software engineer for RStudio.

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 has a Ph.D from Iowa State University with advisors Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.

Career

Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animationin graphics through R. He then authored the knitr package which makes reproducible research available from R.^[3] Since 2013, he has been working with RStudio, the makers of the RStudio IDE for the R programming language.

Awards

He has been awarded the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award, ASA, 2009 (for the R package animation).^[4]

References

External links

[1] ttp://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Documents-knitr-Second-Chapman/dp/1498716962/

[2] ttps://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=lkjqsd4AAAAJ&citation_for_view=lkjqsd4AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC

[3] ttp://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v053i01

[4] ttp://stat-computing.org/awards/jmc/winners.html

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