Yihui Xie (谢益辉) is a Chinese software developer who previously worked for Posit PBC.
[2][1][3] 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.
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.