What Yihui Xie thinks about social media
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Yihui Xie has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe point is a user is looking for help, and a maintainer is willing to help and knows a solution. They are all real humans. You guys are hurting them by closing and deleting the question.
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Their wordsAll they need before they can truly appreciate empathy and humanity is one thing: have one of their own posts closed and deleted by another group of gatekeepers.