Bye, RStudio/Posit! | /en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/ #1555
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Sad to hear this! I've been a big fan of your work at RStudio. Best of luck for the future. |
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Thank you! No need to feel sad, really. In Chinese, the word "危机" (crisis) consists of both "danger" (危) and "opportunity" (机). I'm optimistic about the opportunity part and not very concerned about the danger. I believe this is a blessing in disguise. I'll definitely gain more freedom and growth. |
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辉哥，希望您在新的岗位再创辉煌。上次在您这里留言还是Quarto刚出来的时候，我当时就很纳闷官方为什么做出这么个玩意。 |
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谢谢！关于为什么做出这个玩意，这可能有点像加文斯基定律，就是程序自然而然会有膨胀性，直到它变成一个平台。 |
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The significance of {rmarkdown} as a catalyst for the industry of R users cannot be overstated; I hope you recognize your personal impact. I am so grateful for your open source work over the years, between the blogging, packages, answering stackoverflow questions, and other things that probably went unseen. Wishing you the best in your next endeavours, and looking forward to seeing what you do next! |
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Thank you for the nice words! I often regard myself a lucky fool doing random walks over the years and happen to have achieved some success. I'm not being modest, and I truly believe I have been very lucky (even overly lucky). Hopefully I'll reveal the outcome of my next random walk in about two months :) |
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Rmarkdown revolutionised working with R for me and so many I encounter. There is no metric that can fully convey the impact your work has had on so many. I'm sad to hear you are left in an insecure financial position, but am very keen on seeing what you will be bringing next! |
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Thank you! Undoubtedly, I regard you as the one most important indirect contributor to blogdown. Your feedback has forever changed the usability of this package, to which I'm also forever grateful. |
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that is very kind. And yes, imagine how many amazing R-blogs would never have seen the light of day without blogdown. Truly, you changed the landscape of R communication. The entire community is indebted to you for that. |
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So sorry to hear this! Your work has been instrumental in nearly everything we've done with R for the Rest of Us. Wishing you the best in whatever comes next. |
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Thanks David! It's my great pleasure to hear that! |
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Yihui, it was a pleasure to get to work with you, both as a community member and a fellow RStudio/Posit colleague. Wishing you all the best with your next (minimalist) adventure! |
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Thank you, Garrick! You have been a great helper on a variety of packages that I maintain. I feel very thankful when I could throw some of my least favorite Github issues or issues beyond my expertise your way. I don't think things will change much even if I'm outside Posit. Our roads will cross from time to time as usual in the open source world. |
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Yihui, in all the uncertainty you are experiencing. Be certain about the following, your contributions have changed lives and made reproducibility far more accessible even to some random fellow in the middle of South Africa. |
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Wow, thank you so much for the touching words! |
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Sad to know that. Grateful for all you have done for many years. You change many lives with the quality of your work. |
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Thank you, Aaron! It's great to see that you have been around in my blog for years and I always appreciate your help with improving the posts. |
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You're most welcome. Your posts have been a great inspiration in a lot of personal choices and decisions I have made. Rooting for you to find your footing in the shortest possible time. |
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Thank you so much, and good luck in your "next chapter"! Best of luck a! |
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Yihui, the transformative contributions you've made to the R community cannot be overstated and I am lucky to have followed your creation of knitr and R-Markdown since nearly the beginning. Having the good fortune to have you join me for multiple R-Podcast episodes is easily one of my biggest achievements in the community! I am wishing you the best of luck on your future adventures, and of course you have an open invitation to come back to the show anytime 🎤 |
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Thank you Yihui... your work has revolutionized my own workflows.... wishing you the best and what seems like an end is only a bend.... |
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Best of luck Yihui adjusting to your new work life. I’m sure that you welcome (in some way despite the perils of the unknown) the opportunity for introspection and reflection, though like you said, hopefully it’ll only be a few weeks at most. You are an amazing person, but also an excellent coder who can boast that they’ve built software that has been widely adopted and used. As one of the chapters from the Atomic Habits book says, you can also change your identity, which can lead to new habits. In other words, you can explore new frontiers and don’t need to be tied down by the past. You might discover that you now have time for long suppressed ideas / interests. And who knows, maybe another *down software, not necessarily an R package 📦. Though I’m not the only one who has enjoyed your *down R packages :) Abrazos, |
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Best of luck, Yihui! Your work with RMarkdown inspired me in so many ways - from starting a blog, building reports/shiny apps, and writing books and packages. Still super productive with all of this. |
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I discovered R during my under-graduation in design four years ago and one of the first things I was taught was rmarkdown. Blogdown, xaringan (and Karl!) naturally followed. My first proper website was with blogdown (I now work as a full-time web developer!). I've grown away from R a little since then but I've always had a copy of RStudio in case I needed to make presentations or nice documents quickly. That is the one thing I find myself reaching for almost every month. This year, in a full circle moment, I submitted my graduation thesis which was written with Rmarkdown as well :) I've not written to or interacted with you before this but the way I see it I couldn't have found many of my current interests, ways of working and maybe even aesthetic standards without the enormous amount of resources and work you made available in the public domain; and for that I am grateful. Thank you for all your efforts and for helping so many people like me grow in their own lives. Looking forward to whatever you do next. In the meantime, all the best for the new year :) |
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Yihui, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your invaluable contributions to the open source community throughout the years. Your remarkable work has had a great impact on me, whether it's personally, professionally, or aesthetically. Please take care of yourself. Looking forward to your next project! |
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辉哥, 感谢你！ (There, that's all the Chinese I know) Thank Yihui, for being such an integral part of my 'R' journey, which has in turn been a joyous part of my studies in improving healthcare for my own practice population as well as in a child development project in Kenya. Whereas all the tidyverse stuff has been instrumental in treating information/data as 'information for purpose' (as opposed to data which needs to be iterated over), the 'knitr'/'blogdown'/'bookdown'/'DT' etc. has been such a big part of the "telling the story" about the information in a clear, reproducible manner which doesn't obscure the underlying information (as opposed to ... ahem ... Power#!). I'm using many of those packages right now to generate reports for the child development program. So, thanks again, and best wishes for the New Year! 一帆风顺！ |
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Yihui, I'm a huge RMarkdown/knitr fan and I've always wanted to thank you for the work that you've done. The impact it has is off the charts: So often I've seen useful insights go to waste, because analysts have a hard time conveying their findings in a quick and suitable way. Your work builds the bridge that helps good insights reach the right people with ease and elegance. With that, RMarkdown has irreversibly changed the standards for communication in the community and the wave of impact is still rolling. You hold my deepest respect. |
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Hi Yihui, I entered Iowa State University in the winter of 2012, majoring in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In my first year on campus, I proactively reached out to you, and we had a two-hour meetup. To be honest, meeting you in person was more exciting than my first arrival in the United States. During the meetup, I recall you mentioned that it was your final year of Ph.D. studies and you were working on a book about knitr. I assume it has been published by now. Perhaps you've forgotten, but you provided me with valuable advice during that meeting. You suggested using Ubuntu for development, paying attention to HTML5 and Markdown technologies, and these recommendations have continued to influence me. R was the first programming language I learned, although I haven't used it for quite some time now. However, I have found my direction and have been striving to become an open-source contributor like yourself. Recently, I developed a simple online LaTeX equations editor, https://mathcheap.xyz, which went live a few days ago. This brought you back to my thoughts, prompting me to visit your blog and see how you've been. That's why I came across this post. After reading your sponsorship page, it seems you may not need additional support. Nevertheless, I made a modest donation as a token of my gratitude. It's not much, just a way to express my thanks. I hope to have the opportunity to meet and talk with you again. Best regards, |
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That is such an amazing story! Every time I see a new reply to this thread, I have a huge smile on my face. Yihui's influence on many of us never ceases to amaze me. |
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Your work's contributed so much to making RStudio a great tool for reproducible research and writing ... [Edit: I just mean to say your work has helped many around the world. I wish you all the best on your path.] |
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I just heard the news because I intentionally looked you up, as I do every so often. Why do I look you up? It became clear to me years ago that you are a leader. I am of the opinion that you did not just shape RStudio's enterprise, but an entire industry of data science orientated programmers. Millions feel your impact and will likely never know it. I'm leaving this note to let you know that some random internet stranger has followed your blog and tools over the years with great appreciation. I hope the "invisible hand" does not get you down too much. The ceiling will always be wherever you want it to be because you are a genuine leader in my eyes. Thanks again Yihui <3 |
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As a statistician which has been inspired by your works in Rstudio, I want to say thanks for all you have done for us whole the worls. |
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感谢您为R语言做出的贡献。作为一个刚学R语言的新人，我非常喜欢Rmarkdown的简洁高效。同时，我非常感谢你写的R语言，Rmarkdown文档，这些对于新手而言，实在是太重要了。对于向您一样的开源工作者，我始终保持最崇高的敬意。再次表达我的您的感谢。祝先生生活愉快，万事如意。 |
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Hello Yihui, |
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Admittedly, I am late to the party, I hadn't been here for a while and had to be pointed to this post, but as not only a fan of the work but also the 'brand' I am among those surprised. I hope you have a good impression of to how many people your name (or at least jee-hu-ee) has become synonymous for reproducible research. Your impact on the community has been massive over two decades, making so many people consider the R ecosystem. I hope I get this right: 加油, Yihui! (FWIW, if you'd ever wrote about whether working on quarto ever been an option for you – I'd definitely read it.) |
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Re whether working on Quarto was an option for Yihui: I'd really like to
know the answer. I'm using Quarto but must say I feel vaguely guilty about
it (no smiley sign).
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Hi Norm, no need to feel guilty at all. I tend not to express my personal opinion on Quarto, because I'm an outlier and I don't want to mislead people. Quarto is excellent in many ways, and I totally recommend that most people should use it. I'll keep a reserved opinion to myself for now, because it's still hard to tell how many "outliers" are out there. And yes (also answering @mbannert's question), working on Quarto was an option to me (not 100% clear but 90% clear). The problem was that I thought it was an option (i.e., optional), and I had other duties that I couldn't easily offload. Then my interests gradually shifted as I mentioned in this blog post. |
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Got it, thanks for the extra mile you to explain it to me. Looking forward to read how things evolve. Good luck, legend. 💪 |
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I just stopped by to check on you. I'm glad to see that SwissRe is paying the bills. Good luck with everything. |
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Thank you! That's correct. The contract job with SwissRe will last seven months and we will see how we want to proceed from there. I also have a light side job with Merck coming soon. I think the two jobs will keep my busy for some months this year (I've already been quite busy with SwissRe in the past few weeks), but both jobs look quite interesting to me. Hopefully I'll have a couple of months at the end of year that totally belong to myself, so I can spend time on other things. |
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益辉大哥，祝安好！ |
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You are just like a modern swordsman. I aspire to become someone like you. Keep moving on. |
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益辉您好！ 自从年初看到您的帖子就想给您留言，但是每次写了很多又删了。DDDD（懂得都懂）之前18年最开始接触rmd的时候就给您写过email您还回复了。我现在工作学习还是一直在用rmd也推荐给很多同事。虽然Quarto有很多新的features可是在我心中rmd还是不可替代的。望您一切都好！机遇不断！ |
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Thanks for your remarkable work in R package and R community! |
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Bye, RStudio/Posit!
Who is down? Me. After more than 10 years at RStudio/Posit, the time has come for me to explore other opportunities. A little over two weeks ago, I was told that I was laid off and my last day would …
https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/
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