table of proposed coding projects

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

Students, 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	Status/Results	Mentors	Non-R languages?
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Factor analysis based on higher-order moments	Potential student	Nathan Lassance, Kris Boudt	NA
re2r back on CRAN	Need student	TD Hocking, Q Wenfeng	C++
Animated interactive ggplots	Need student	TD Hocking, F Khan	JavaScript
Port melt to python datatable	Need student	P Stetsenko, TD Hocking	python, C
Binary segmentation	Potential student	TD Hocking, R Killick	C, C++
directlabels improvements	Potential student	TD Hocking, Ben Bolker	NA
Improvements to nls()	Need student	J C Nash, Hans W Borchers, Heather Turner	Possibly C, Fortran
Adaptive Bayesian SLOPE (ABSLOPE)	Need student	Johan Larsson, Jonas Wallin	C++
R Community Explorer	Need student	Ben Ubah, Rick Pack	Javascript
Improvements to the poorman package	Need student	Nathan Eastwood, J Shea	NA
RcppSMC Development	Need student	Adam Johansen, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Leah South	C++, Rcpp
Addressing bibtex rchck errors	Need student	James Balamuta, TBD	C
marshal: Saving and Loading Objects that Otherwise Cannot be Saved or Exported to Parallel Workers	Need student	Henrik Bengtsson, TBD	NA
matrixStats: Consistent Support for Name Attributes	Potential students	Jakob Peder Pettersen, Henrik Bengtsson	C
Add Conical Optimizer to PortfolioAnalytics	Potential Students	D Martin, P Carl, B Peterson	NA
Expected Returns: FactorAnalytics	Need student	J Shea, B Peterson, J Mackey, E Biceroglu, S Karla, H Ristov, P Carl	NA
mlr3fairness: Algorithmic fairness & debiasing	Need student	Michel Lang, Bernd Bischl, Florian Pfisterer, Sebastian Vollmer	NA
Interactive Graphics for ChemoSpec	Need student	Bryan Hanson, Erick Oduniyi	NA
Enhanced hexbin for ggplot2	Potential students	T Philips, D Martin, B Peterson, P Carl	NA
Time-dependent constraints in gfpop	Need student	G Romano, V Runge	C++
Add robust betas to PerformanceAnalytics	Need student	P Carl, D Martin, B Peterson	NA
hyperSpec	Potential student	C Beleites, B Hanson, V Gegzna	(possibly python)
Agile app development via bdtools	Need student	Tomer Gueta, Thiloshon Nagarajah, Guillaume Body, Sarah Valentin, Vijay Barve	NA
Automated (AutoML) tool to clean univariate time series at microscales	Potential student	Neeraj Dhanraj Bokde	NA
bugRzilla: Helping submitting issues to R	Potential student	Lluís Revilla Sancho, Heather Turner	NA
ML and macro diffusion indexes	Potential Students	Richard O. Excell, Peter Carl	NA

Project ideas have a ‘Status’ column which describes the current status of mentor and student interest. Project ideas where no student has yet contacted mentors should be listed as ‘need student’. Project ideas where one or more potential students are communicating with mentors should have a status of ‘potential students’. You can still communicate your interest to mentors to apply to projects with status “potential student” – that implies that there is another student 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 student 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.

Students, 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 2 mentors for your project proposal.