Yihui XieInterview
PhD statistician, R developer
Adapted from Yihui Xie's interview on Uses This, published 27 November 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I use a Thinkpad T510 (15.6-inch screen, 4GB RAM, Intel Core i5 CPU).
I won a Kindle from the Strata conference in 2011 by chance.
Communication
I stuck with WordPress for about 4 years.
Productivity
LaTeX.") 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 Word.
Browser
For debugging purposes, I use Chrome when I develop web applications.
Notes
Coding & Development
I founded an online community for statistics in China in 2006 called Capital of Statistics, which is also the most popular community for R in China.
I dislike the default Unity interface like others.
Design
Media
I combine the SciAnimator library with my animation package to create animations on the web, which demonstrates concepts and methods in statistics.
Other
At the moment, I'm working on a book on reproducible research with R and knitr.
I work under Ubuntu for the most of time with open source software packages.
Finally I came to Jekyll, a blog engine for hackers.