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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Multi Stage Adaptive Trial Design in R	Potential students	Tuo Zhao, Ethan Fang	C++
MCMC for forensic science	No students found	TD Hocking, E Serra	C/C++
re2r back on CRAN	No students found	TD Hocking, Q Wenfeng	C++
grpc	Need student	N Fultz, G Daroczi	C/C++
Asymptotic complexity testing	General Vignette, Blog, Package: Github, CRAN	TD Hocking, N Bokde
Animated interactive ggplots	Blog, Commits	TD Hocking, F Khan	JavaScript
rtracklayer improvements	Final report	TD Hocking, M Lawrence	C
Constrained changepoint GUI	Blog, Package	TD Hocking, G Rigaill	JavaScript
rco: The R Code Optimizer	Final Report	JC Rodriguez	-
MiniZinc Interface for R	Package: Github Package: CRAN Article	L Kotthoff, HW Borchers, G Tack	Python, MiniZinc
R Community Explorer	Potential student	Ben Ubah, Rick Pack, G Daroczi	JavaScript
bddashboard: Interactive Biodiversity Data Dashboard	Student Proposed	Thiloshon Nagarajah, Vijay Barve, Tomer Gueta	JavaScript
highfrequency	Report, Package:Github	Kris Boudt, Onno Kleen, Nabil Bouamara	C++
rsqliteadmin : sqlite admin tool in R shiny	Package-Github	Vijay Barve, Thiloshon Nagarajah, Narayani Barve
biosurvey: Biological Survey Planning Considering Hutchinson’s Duality	Package: GitHub	Narayani Barve, Vijay Barve, Tomer Gueta
mcmcse: updates, cleanup, and efficiency	Potential student	Dootika Vats, James Flegal	C++
A comparative study of uniform high dimensional samplers	Potential student	A Chalkis, V Fisikopoulos, E Tsigaridas	C++/R
Better solvers for the SLOPE package	Package, Report	Johan Larsson, Jonas Wallin	C++
Expected Returns	Package, Final report	Prof. Justin M. Shea, Prof. Brian Peterson, Erol Biceroglu, Jasen Mackie, Soumya Kalra, and Peter Carl	R
hyperSpec	Blog	Claudia Beleites, Bryan Hanson, Roman Kiselev	(python is optional)
bdverse's development and QA frameworks	needs students	Tomer Gueta, Thiloshon Nagarajah, Vijay Barve	Shiny, Docker, Linux
Enhancing bdchecks: a biodiversity data quality checks system in R	Github commits	Povilas Gibas, Tomer Gueta, Thiloshon Nagarajah, Vijay Barve
QBLD - Quantile Regression for Binary Longitudinal Data	Package:CRAN, Package:GitHub, Vignette	Dootika Vats, Adam Maidman	C++
Machine learning toolkit for predicting disease-associated genetic variants	Student Proposed	Li Chen	R & python
A package for robust-GARCH model	Package: Github, Vignette	R. Douglas Martin, Daniel Hanson, Alexios Galanos	C++ optional
NNbenchmark: Neural Network package validation Part 2 (2020)	Part 1 (2019), Package:CRAN, Templates:GitHub	Patrice Kiener, Christophe Dutang, John Nash

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 ‘needs students’. Project ideas where one or more potential students are communicating with mentors should have a status of ‘potential student’ or ‘two[three,etc] 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.