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/ Feedback Leave a comment on this episode's [post]({{< ref "024-rstudioconf-yihui-xie.md" >}}) Email the show: thercast[at]gmail.com Use the R-Podcast [contact page]({{< ref "contact.md" >}}) Leave a voicemail at +1-269-849-9780 Music Credits Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org