table of proposed coding projects

Mentors, please edit this wiki page, and add your ideas to the table below.

Contributors, please look for a project that interests you in the table below. Before emailing project mentors, please do at least one project Test and post a link to your solution on the proposal’s wiki page.

Proposal	Hours	Status/Results	Mentors	Non-R languages?
MENTORS-COPY-THIS-TEMPLATE
Animated interactive ggplots	175 or 350	Need contributor	TD Hocking, Y Fei	JavaScript
Time-dependent constraints in gfpop	350	Need contributor	V Runge, G Romano	C++
dirichletprocess improvements	350	Need contributor	Dean Markwick, TD Hocking	?
data.table	175 or 350	Need contributor	TD Hocking, A Chetia	C
sundialr-(Package-for-solving-ODEs-in-R)	175 or 350	Need contributor	S Nayak	C/C++
r2sbml-(An-interface-to-SBML-in-R)	175 or 350	Need contributor	S Nayak	C/C++
torchvision in R improvements	175 or 350	Need contributor	C Regouby, TD Hocking	C++
Optimizing a performance testing workflow by reusing minified R package versions between CI runs	175	Need contributor	TD Hocking, Ani	Shell
Updates in VedicDateTime R Package	350	Need contributor	ND Bokde, A Gupta
imputeTestbench for multivariate time series	350	Need contributor	A Gupta, ND Bokde
DBmaps R Package Development	175	Need contributor	D Shilane, TD Hocking
grepreaper R Package Development	175	Need contributor	D Shilane, TD Hocking	grep
spinebil: Package to provide diagnostics for projection pursuit	350	Need contributor	D Cook, J Leung, U Laa
ecotourism: data package containing tourism records and endangered wildlife reports	350	Need contributor	D Cook, L Cook
Structured covariance matrices for lme4	175 or 350	Need contributor	B Bolker, E Tanaka, M Jagan	possibly some C++
pandemonium: GUI for cluster analysis with interactive visualization	350	Need contributor	U Laa, G Valencia
Enhancing the Jaya R Package for Efficient Optimization	350	Need contributor	V Tiwari, ND Bokde
Refining the R Dev Container	350	Need contributor	H Turner, I Emsley, A Shirdhankar	bash
Interactive diagnostics for NLDR visualizations	350	Need contributor	U Laa, EK Lee
ChatR: R Expert Chatbot	350	Need contributor	M Lawrence, G Becker	English

Project ideas have a ‘Status’ column which describes the current status of mentor and contributor interest. Project ideas where no contributor has yet contacted mentors should be listed as ‘need contributor’. Project ideas where one or more potential contributors are communicating with mentors should have a status of ‘potential contributors’. You can still communicate your interest to mentors to apply to projects with status “potential contributor” – that implies that there is another contributor who has already shown some capability for that project (see below for more details on how we evaluate applications). Projects that need to identify another mentor (e.g. to find a mentor with a specific skill, or from a different institution) should be marked with a status of ‘need mentor’ and the idea page should provide details in the ‘Mentors’ section.

All contributor applications will be discussed by the R mentor community, and proposals will be ranked considering factors such as quality, difficulty, and impact for the R community. Slots are a finite resource granted to R by Google, and only the best proposals will get chosen. In prior years, R has received 4-5 times more applications than slots, so application quality is key.

Contributors, if you have an idea for an R package coding project that is not listed above, please try to find mentors by posting a description of your project idea on the r-gsoc google group. If you find mentors, feel free to add your project idea to this wiki. You should NOT submit any project applications to Google without finding TWO mentors for your project proposal.