Yihui Xie

Yihui has a great passion for statistics, especially for statistical graphics. He thinks his IQ might be lower than the average level , because he is often confused by statistical theories and methods in classes. Not being able to follow those smart guys , every now and then he chooses to doze off in the back of the classroom or stand in the front to show others his animations (in order that he should not doze off again).

To know more about this guy, please visit his Blog or read his CV. Chinese visitors may also wish to visit his Chinese Blog.

And here is his name card:

You may download the one without border (7.68K), the original TIFF image (5.03M), or the gzipped TIFF image (386K).

Drop me a few lines here if you didn't doze off when browsing this wiki.¹⁾ For example, “Hi sleepy guy, my dog seems to be interested in your animations. When I woke up I found he was moving the mouse browsing your web pages.” Don't worry about your email addresses because there is a mechanism to protect them from harvesting bots – the addresses will be obfuscated.

… like it very much… — Gregor Gorjanc (PhD student), University of Ljubljana. 2007/11/12

… very much liked your animation for k-means cluster analysis. On the other hand your animations for survey sampling I find only are only “so so”… — Tom Brotz, USA. 2007/12/24

… got more interested to learn R after visiting your site… — tajuakins (a visitor), Nigeria. 2007/12/24

… and I am very impressed. I will use it when I am teaching courses… — John Maindonald (Retired Visiting Fellow), Australian National University. 2008/01/21

… to your web page, which is very interesting!… fascinating… — Di Cook (Professor), Iowa State University. 2008/01/28

… stumbled upon your animation package. WOW!!! I teach an undergraduate course in econometrics and this will be HUGE help in my lectures. Well done!!!… — Neil (a visitor) 2008/04/12

… Great site!!! I like the ideas for animations a lot… — Michal Bojanowski (researcher), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences. 2008/04/16

… I really have enjoyed your blog on Animation using R… — J. Xie (Doctoral Candidate), Massey University, New Zealand. 2008/05/13

… the first useful animation package for R… really pleased to come across it… the help file and vignette difficult to follow… — Quin Wills (DPhil candidate), University of Oxford. 2008/05/30

… a lot of information on your website would be very helpful for my studies continuously… — Christine Kang (Master Student), Stanford University. 2008/06/02

… Very impressive!… — Tom Aldenberg, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands. 2008/06/09

… I have made animations without it and it takes an enormous amount of effort. Your package will make things Soooooo much easier. ~ Charles Annis, P.E. 2009/03/28

Your web site and animation package will open the eyes of many to the wonders of statistics — Dan Goldstein (Professor), London Business School and Yahoo! Research (2009/07/22)

Your package is fantastic. — Ivan Porro 2009/11/09