Yihui Xie

Yihui Xie
谢益辉
Born
Yichang, Hubei, China
Alma mater
Known forKnitr
Bookdown
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Statistical graphics
Statistical computing
Reproducible research
InstitutionsPosit PBC
ThesisDynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics (2013)
Doctoral advisorDianne Cook
Heike Hofmann
Websiteyihui.org

Yihui Xie (谢益辉) is a Chinese software developer who previously 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.