Bye, RStudio/Posit! | /en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/

Sad to hear this! I've been a big fan of your work at RStudio. Best of luck for the future.

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。

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

Sad to know that. Grateful for all you have done for many years. You change many lives with the quality of your work.

Thank you so much, and good luck in your "next chapter"!
Your work helped me immensely for a long time and saved me a lot of time.
While I do not use R or markdown daily anymore, I still feel a lot of gratitude for you.

Best of luck a!

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 🎤

Thank you Yihui... your work has revolutionized my own workflows.... wishing you the best and what seems like an end is only a bend....

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,
Leo

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.

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 :)

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!

I just came to say thank you so much for the wonderful packages I use almost daily. I am super excited to see what you do next and (selfishly) hoping it is in the biostatistics space :)

Sad to hear that Yihui. Your work is very important in my day to day practice. Wishing you the best for the future !

Thanks so much for all your contributions, Yihui. I'll echo sentiments above that you've transformed the reproducibility environment in ways that are hard to quantify. I think it's only fitting that LEGENDARY status should now be conferred...

Very sad to learn this news, Yihui. As I'm sure you know, your tremendous contributions to R are highly appreciated throughout the R community. I'm sure you'll find a role in which you can do even more. 加油, 加油!

Sad to hear this, Yihui. Your "down" packages were very significant during my school years when I would write up homework assignments or create websites with blogdown. I wish you the best for your future and hope you land an exciting role!

Thanks Yihui. Your work had and still has a tremendous impact on my professional career and allowed me to collaborate with amazing people like @howardbaek on a book project (just above my comment 😉). I wish you all the best for the future and looking forward to seeing the next steps.

Although our paths only crossed occasionally at RStudio / Posit, I have very fond memories of working together, and our conversations at the various conferences over the years. On a personal level, you and knitr deserve credit for getting me excited about R and reproducible research -- I recall seeing and being excited about the first versions of knitr back in 2012, when I had just started my first job as a data analyst using R. And then also our brief chance encounter back at the Gottardo lab in Seattle so many years ago!

I know this isn't goodbye and we'll continue to see each other around in the R ecosystem, but this is as good an opportunity as any to reiterate what an impact your work has had, both for myself and the greater community. Thank you :-)

Hi Yihui, sorry to hear this. I enjoyed working with you years ago when I worked on the Bioconductor project - I believe that was before you started at RStudio/Posit. Best of luck and keep us posted with your future plans (and consider having a look at https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/careers.html - I'd be happy to be a reference for a job here or anywhere else).

Very sad indeed to hear this news. Your contributions to the community and, on a personal note, the impact of your packages, writings, and invaluable personal suggestions have been significant to me. Many years ago I used to evangelize people about R and reproducible research in Italy using your tools and your advices during that period was deeply appreciated. Thank you! Looking forward to your next steps!

✌️& ❤️ 4 the R 🐐
Keep doing u Yihui

Hi Yihui, this may turn out to be good for you at the end. After a few years, you probably thank Posit for laying you off. For talented people like you, every challenge is an opportunity to grow.
I has been a big fan of yours. Hope I can meet you in person some day.

I can't thank you enough for what you have done to make the publishing ecosystem in R what it is today. I know many people (myself included) whose career paths would have been very different without your work on {knitr}. I say this sincerely: without {rmarkdown}, I would not have been able to effectively create a website tutorial for my package; without {blogdown}, my blog would have fallen into disarray years ago; without {bookdown}, I would have been forced to format my dissertation in Word; and without {knitr}, none of these would have even been possible.

Thank you for delivering us from Word, Sweave, and Jekyll. And mostly, thank you for all the gifs, grace, and levity you've given us throughout the years. I'm wishing you luck and am excited for what comes next in your journey

Thanks a lot for your contribution in R community. I used blogdown for my personal website.

Best of luck! I can't imagine where I would have ended up without having knitr/rmarkdown/bookdown in my toolbelt.

It makes me very sad, I have been using R around the time you worked at RStudio. I can't believe how the Rstudio leaders can treat the brilliant people like that. I am sure you will find some places better than RStudio.

Your tools remain my constant companions, and I remain a big fan. Thank you. ❤️

Yihui,

I cannot even begin to describe how immeasurable your contribution to the open source community has been. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything! I look forward to supporting and following you on your next journey. ❤️

I recently finished writing my master's degree paper with Bookdown. I really appreciate Yihui contribution to the R user community and reproducibility. 👏👏👏
Big thank you ❤️.

Yihui,
Wanted to suggest two (paid) avenues for teaching/sharing your knowledge with others:

1. https://codehorizons.com
2. https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine
   More generally, perhaps creating a (paid) course would be a good way to capitalize on your skills. Have seen many people do this.

Thanks for all the work you've done!

Thanks so much, Yihui, for creating knitr and making the Rmd ecosystem so good as to become indispensable. From the earliest version, it was already a huge step change from Sweave, and it's been leading the way ever since (and beyond R). I see it as groundbreaking and influential as ggplot2 has been in the graphics world.

Best wishes for the next chapter in your professional journey, I look forward to hearing about it.

It has been amazing to see the growth of your packages over the last few years, ever since I first switched to knitr.

Best wishes for 2024 and I hope the job offers will be coming along.

益辉你好，我是GWU的一名博士生，从我导师那里听闻你离职的消息，倍感惊讶。我一直在用RStudio和众多由你开发的工具。在项目期间，导师也多次提到你，说你对R语言生态的贡献良多。他每每提及，均赞赏有加。
如你所言，“危机”之中不仅有危险，也蕴含着机会。希望你一切顺利！加油！

I'm very sad to hear this news, but I do hope that this brings great opportunities for you and I wish you all the best. Thank you so much for all your contributions, Yihui. ❤️

Your contributions to the R and open-source communities have been prolific and you should be proud of your accomplishments! I'll be rooting for you as you enter this period of uncertainty; may 2024 bring you endless opportunities! (We've also run into each other at R Studio Conferences and various user groups around Omaha, so "hello!" and good luck from a fellow Omahan! ❤️)

Hi Yihui,
I am very sorry to hear about you being let go by Posit. I remember how your being with RStudio and your presence at RStudio events generated a significant amount of good will for RStudio. It was a great pleasure being your colleague, and I am still thankful for the help you provided to me. Please consider if your R work could be structured in a way to be eligible for an R Consortium ISC grant. I would be happy to discuss this with you anytime. director@r-consortiu,.org

Hi Yihui,

A lot of folks have already said what I would like to say, only better.

Your contributions pushed the boundaries of what I thought possible, and got me truly excited to try things out.

Trusting that you will find new opportunities to create (suitably minimal) worlds.

@yihui Thank you for all the amazing work you've done!
I wish you the best.
Jerzy

Blessing in disguise. Wish all the best in future!

Go minimalist!

我靠～～～

好吧，都没啥大错误

加油！

Yihui, thank you so much for your great work and the meaningful changes you have made for accessible software. Without your {*down} packages, studying R would have been impossible for me. Plus, I was able to learn how to contribute to open-source projects from your constructive PR reviewe and kind pointers all the time. You have truly created an inclusive, accessible, and reproducible ecosystem for all. I wish you the very best of luck on your new journey and I am rooting for you.

Yihui-

Getting to work alongside you and Christophe continues to be one of the most rewarding experiences in my career. Your tools changed the entire trajectory of my career, and made this psychologist into someone who has now been afflicted with a lifelong burning desire to build beautiful HTML things, and I'm eternally grateful for how you made literate programming accessible for the rest of us.

I wish you the best of luck and hope that you land in a place where your minimalism can be maximized to its fullest impact. I look forward to reading what is next for you, and I trust you'll share as always.

My best to you and your family,
Alison

Best wishes for your new journey. I'm looking forward to seeing what new things you will create in future!

Wish you all the best !!

So sad to hear you go, and hopefully the news did not come at a huge shock. I am a big fan of your work (R) and writing. Wishing you the best for the journey ahead. Indeed, only opportunities ahead.