Yihui Xie

Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He earned a PhD from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. His research focuses on interactive statistical graphics and statistical computing. He is an active R user and the author of several award-winning R packages, such as animation, formatR, Rd2roxygen, and knitr. He is also the founder of "Capital of Statistics," a large online statistics community in China.