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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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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在欧洲博士联合培养的两年，有段时间自己摸索R语言，无意搜到了你的网站。看了所有内容后，觉得你很聪明，瞬间觉得IT男（哈哈，抱歉这么说）太男神了。回国后找工作也受到很大打击，现在也很忙。去年不知在哪看到你离开RStudio，觉得很感慨。不过今天得知你在瑞士，也很开心。瑞士很漂亮。希望你一切安好。 |
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感谢！虽然现在已经不怎么写R了但是您一直是我刚入门编程时的一个精神导师，读研那会经常会看你的动态。祝一切都好！ |
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I cannot wrap my head around this. How does a company like Posit not have a role for someone as supremely talented, creative and successful in creating useful products as you so obviously are? Anyway, good things happen to good people and I hope this only means that you thrive even more than before. |
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Dear Hui, I am very sorry hear that! Wocao, tamen hai youmeiyou renxing, ni zheme youxiu de ren, juran gei kaichule ,wo zende shi xiangbutong, wo nianji bini xiaodian ,danshi qingkuang he ni chabuduo, kandao ni zhezhongqingkuang ,turan xiangdao wo ye gongzuo shinian le, ruguo zhende youyitian wo ye turan bei gongsi kaichule de hua, wo zhende xiangku! Dangran,xianzai shuozhexie keneng meiyou shenme yong, wo haishi yaoshuo ,ni jiushi wo yanzhong zuibang de bangyang! Wo dang laoshi shiduonianle, jingchang zai wo de ketangshang butong chengdu de tijini, wo er huo! Best Wishes! Laizi yiming chongqing jiaoshi songshang de lingleide guanhuai! |
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Dude, we are waiting for posts on your Bluesky account! |
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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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