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Yihui Xie

Statistician and R developer, author of the knitr, bookdown and blogdown packages.

9 things

MathJaxSoftware

loved

The other amazing JS application that I use is MathJax, which allows me to write LaTeX math in web pages.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

JekyllSoftware

liked

Finally I came to Jekyll, a blog engine for hackers. I'm pretty happy with it since I will never worry about databases; I just write simple Markdown posts and push them to Github via Git.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

RStudioSoftware

uses

Emacs was my editor before I switched to RStudio; for small tasks, I just use the default editor gedit.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

RSoftware

uses

For programming and data analysis, I primarily use R since I'm a statistician.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

LyXSoftware

uses

For typesetting I use LyX which is a wrapper for LaTeX, and I have argued 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.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

pandocSoftware

uses

I'm visually tired of beamer slides (mainly because too many people use the same style), and I use pandoc to create HTML5 slides.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

knitrSoftware Yihui Xie

usestheir own

I use my knitr package to generate reports directly from code (literate programming); the "reports" may include homework, blog posts, websites, papers and books.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

Thinkpad T510Hardware Lenovo

uses

I use a Thinkpad T510 (15.6-inch screen, 4GB RAM, Intel Core i5 CPU).

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

UbuntuSoftware Canonical

mixed

I work under Ubuntu for the most of time with open source software packages. I dislike the default Unity interface like others.

His Uses This interview, on the R and publishing toolchain he works in.

2012-11-27·usesthis.com ↗

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