tl;dr Taking a moment to thank Yihui, who has unwittingly made possible the rise of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP). Hooray for Yihui Yihui Xie is an R legend. He was, however, recently laid off by his employers at Posit. I’ve personally benefited a great deal from Yihui’s work, from writing reproducible presentations with {xaringan} to producing the original version of this blog with {blogdown}. At a grander scale, Yihui’s contributions to the R ecosystem have had a lasting and...