Yihui Xie

Xie is a native of Yichang, Hubei, China.^[5]

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.^[6] His doctoral advisors at Iowa State University were Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.^[7]

Yihui Xie created the animation package in R which allows animation in graphics through R.^[8] 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.

Xie was awarded the John M. Chambers statistical software award by American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2009 for the R package animation.^[9]

His publications^[1][3][10] include:

• R Markdown Cookbook^[11]
• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide^[12]
• blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown^[13]
• bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown^[14]
• Dynamic Documents with R and knitr^[4]
• animation: An R Package for Creating Animations and Demonstrating Statistical Methods^[8]