Yihui Xie
Data scientist and developer of R software / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yihui Xie (Chinese: 谢益辉) is a Chinese statistician, data scientist and software engineer who formerly worked for Posit PBC.[3][1][4] 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.[5]
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Yihui Xie | |
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Born | 谢益辉 |
Alma mater | Renmin University of China (BS) Iowa State University (PhD) |
Known for | Knitr Bookdown |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics Statistical graphics Statistical computing Reproducible research[1] |
Institutions | RStudio |
Thesis | Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics (2013) |
Doctoral advisor | Dianne Cook Heike Hofmann[2] |
Website | yihui |
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