Yihui Xie, RMarkdown Creator, Laid Off from RStudio

Re:Yihui Xie, RMarkdown Creator, Laid Off from RStudio by deng on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:39AM (#38924531)

That is really worrying. He worked there for over 10 years, doing incredible work for the R community, and then just being laid off with 2 weeks notice, over Christmas no less... Of course we don't know the other side, but he at least handles it like a total professional in this post.

EDIT: Also see the outpour of thanks and support in the comment thread https://github.com/yihui/yihui.org/discussions/1555 which gives an impression how well known and liked he is in the R community.

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Re:Yihui Xie, RMarkdown Creator, Laid Off from RStudio by gpsx on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:34PM (#38932425)

I was/am a fan of the R language. I was in fact working on a reactive R IDE, distantly related to R markdown, largely for fun. However, with ChatGPT, that changed my focus to using python more, since ChatGPT provides so much help in the use case of data analysis. For me its use in python offsets advantages of R. And R Studio/Posit was trying to generalize into Python even before ChatGPT. I am sure that must have some impact on the company.

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