It’s an episode of firsts on the R-Podcast! In this episode recorded on location I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Yihui Xie, author of many innovative packages such as knitr and animation. Some of the topics we discussed include:

• Yihui’s motivation for creating knitr and some key new features
• How markdown plays a key role in making reproducible research more accessible
• An innovative approach for publishing and maintaining reproducible statistical results online

And much more on this “lucky” episode 13 of the R-Podcast!

Episode 13 Show Notes

Resources mentioned during interview with Yihui

• Yihui’s GitHub page: github.com/yihui/knitr
• Yihui’s blog: yihui.name
• ROxygen2 package for easy creating R package documentation
• Yihui’s Rmini package on GitHub
• The knitr package home page and GitHub repository
• Using knitr and Sweave in Rstudio documentation
• The knitr mailing list and recent knitr questions on StackOverflow
• Vistat reproducible gallery of statistical graphics

R Community Roundup

• R version 3.0.0 highlights as well as version 3.0.1 highlights

Package pick

• Pandoc: Powerful and customizable document conversion

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Music Credits

• The opening theme is entitled “Super Fighting Robot X” by WillRock from the Megaman X: Maverick Rising Album at ocremix.org
• The closing theme is entitled “Countdown to Infinity” by WillRock from the Megaman X: Maverick Rising Album at ocremix.org