Our coverage of rstudio::conf 2018 continues! In this episode I reconnect with the first-ever guest of the R-Podcast, RStudio software engineer Yihui Xie. In our conversation you'll hear about Yihui's journey since joining RStudio, his vision of how blogdown and bookdown could lead to a streamlined publishing worflow, and much more. I hope you enjoy this episode!

Conversation with Yihui Xie

• Yihui's supplemental post: yihui.name/en/2018/02/r-podcast/
• Rbind project: support.rbind.io/about/
• The New and Improved R-Podcast Site: support.rbind.io/2017/04/27/r-podcast-website/
• REWORK: basecamp.com/books/rework
• blogdown: Creating websites with R Markdown (available online and print): bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/
• Keeping up with blogdown (Mara Averick): maraaverick.rbind.io/2017/10/keeping-up-with-blogdown/

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Music Credits

• Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org