# Yihui Xie

> Yihui Xie (谢益辉) is a Chinese software developer who previously worked for Posit PBC. He is the principal author of the open-source software package Knitr for dynamic report generation in the R programming language, and has also written the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr.

*Data scientist, developer of R software*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/yihui-xie

## Identity
- **Category:** Developers
- **Status:** unknown
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Yihui Xie (谢益辉) is a Chinese software developer who previously worked for Posit PBC. He is the principal author of the open-source software package Knitr for dynamic report generation in the R programming language, and has also written the book Dynamic Documents with R and knitr.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 56.0
- **Total followers across platforms:** 9,885

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/xieyihui (@xieyihui)
- **WEBSITE**: https://yihui.org/en/
- **GITHUB**: https://github.com/yihui (@yihui, 9,885 followers)

## Sources
- [Yihui Xie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yihui_Xie)
- [谢益辉](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%A2%E7%9B%8A%E8%BE%89)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23761837)

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