Yihui Xie
Person on 4 sites
Yihui Xie is a Chinese software developer and statistician who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born in: Yichang, Hubei, China (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Bachelor (2006) and Master (2009) of Economics in statistics, Renmin University of China; PhD in statistics, Iowa State University (2013) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Software: knitr; animation; bookdown; blogdown (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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GitHub: @yihui (opens github.com)
“testit — A simple package for testing R packages”
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Site: yihui.org (opens yihui.org)
“An Introduction to xfun”
- Mastodon: @yihui@mastodon.social (opens mastodon.social)
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GitHub: @yihui (opens github.com)
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11 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The vast majority of open-source software developers are unpaid and go unnoticed. (opens korrents.com)
“A great many (perhaps the vast majority) of open-source software developers are unpaid and even unnoticed.”
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WebP images are typically 25-35% smaller than PNG at equivalent visual quality (opens korrents.com)
“WebP is typically 25-35% smaller than PNG at equivalent visual quality, useful for HTML reports where file size matters”
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Standardizing document or table tooling on HTML instead of PDF, LaTeX, or RTF removes most of the underlying complexity. (opens korrents.com)
“Once you commit to HTML, an enormous amount of complexity simply evaporates.”
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The vast majority of open-source software developers are unpaid and go unnoticed. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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RStudio (opens rcmnd.app)
“Emacs was my editor before I switched to RStudio; for small tasks, I just use the default editor gedit.”
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R (opens rcmnd.app)
“For programming and data analysis, I primarily use R since I'm a statistician.”
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LyX (opens rcmnd.app)
“For typesetting I use LyX which is a wrapper for LaTeX, and I have argued with other people for many times that writing raw LaTeX is not helpful after you have mastered LaTeX, although I absolutely love LaTeX and avoid…”
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RStudio (opens rcmnd.app)