table of proposed coding projects

Accepted students: before the GSOC mid-term evaluation deadline, you need to put your code in some public repository like github or R-Forge, then post a link to your code in the Results column.

Students	Proposal	Results	Status	Mentors	Non-R languages?
Akash Tandon	Test timings on Travis	Rperform	Completed	TD Hocking, H Wickham	git
Dinesh	Convert Dowd's Code	Dowd		Brian Peterson, Peter Carl	Matlab
Dongcan Jiang	Subsetted and parallel computations in matrixStats	matrixStats fork		Henrik Bengtsson, Héctor Corrada Bravo	C
Dootika Vats	Cov Matrix Estimation for MCMC	MultiMcmcse		John Hughes, Charlie Geyer	C++, Rcpp,git
Framartin (Martin Gubri)	Predict methods for spatial econometrics	spatial-pred-r fork		Roger Bivand, Giovanni Millo	C
Ishmael Belghazi	Stochastic Average Gradient	BigOptim		John Nash, TD Hocking	C
Jasmine Dumas	GEO-analysis-with-Shiny	GEO-AWS		Garrett Dancik, Yuanbin Ru
Vinnie Monaco	Multivariate Survival analysis	frailtySurv	completed	Malka Gorfine, Li Hsu
Kerschke	Improving mlr’s hyperparameter and tuning system for efficient model selection	commits on mlr and ParamHelpers, as well as my forked repos of mlr and ParamHelpers	started coding	Bernd Bischl, Michel Lang	no
Kevin Ferris	Animint	animint package on github	started coding	C Sievert, S VanderPlas, TD Hocking	Javascript
Nafiz Hamid	nlmeviz	https://github.com/nafizh/nlmeviz		Eun-kyung Lee, Di Cook
Nick Michaud	statistical algorithms in NIMBLE	commits to NIMBLE repo and run-time comparison		Perry de Valpine, Chris Paciorek, Duncan Temple Lang
Rohit Arora	covariance matrix estimators	covmat	Completed	Doug Martin
Roman Tsegelskyi	pander	merged commits, my fork and submitted code samples	Completed	Gergely Daroczi	markdown, C++
Sangeetha Srinivasan	factorAnalytics package	factorAnalytics		Eric Zivot
Tae Seung Kang	markovchain	markovchain		Spedicato, Giorgio A, Christophe Dutang	C++, Rcpp,git
Tong He	Implement several ensemble SVMs in mlr	SwarmSVM package on github		Aydin Demircioglu, Bernd Bischl (co-mentor)	no
Jun Cai (Tony Tsai)	Animint	animint package on github	started coding	C Sievert, S VanderPlas, TD Hocking	Javascript
Vijay Barve	Biodiversity SNS	bdsns		Javier Otegui, Robert Guralnick, Jorge Soberón
Wouter	wrds package	WRDS		Guy Yollin
Xavier Valls	Risk + Asset Allocation	Meucci		Peter Carl, Brian Peterson
Xingguo	SDCA	asdca	started coding	Daniel Vainsencher, tourzhao	C
Yixuan Qiu	Cpp Version of ARPACK and Integration with (Rcpp)Armadillo	arpack-arma	started coding	Dirk Eddelbuettel, Ryan Curtin, Drew Schmidt (backup)	C++
Zachary Jones	Improving mlr’s visualisations	merged commits and fork	started coding	Lars Kotthoff, Julia Schiffner, Bernd Bischl (if needed and other projects not selected)	no

Other project ideas:

Mentors, please add your project proposal as a row in the table below, and COPY THIS Proposal Template. Each proposal will to need explain

• how to contact the two mentors required for each student project,
• why this particular project is of use to the community,
• how it can be achieved in three months,
• a review of related packages that address the same or similar problems, and a discussion how these packages are not sufficient to the task,
• tests that students can do to demonstrate a minimum amount of interest and ability.

Students,

• before submitting an application, please read the project proposals in the table below, email the mentors with whom you are interested in working, and add links to your completed tests on the relevant wiki pages.

Proposal	Mentors	Non-R languages?
COPY THIS Proposal Template
ggplotly	M Corvellac, C Parmer
Extend Rcpp	Dirk Eddelbuettel, other RcppCore members	C++
Performance Analysis with pbdPAPI	Drew Schmidt, Christian Heckendorf, Wei-Chen Chen
Rth: Parallel R Through Thrust	Norm Matloff, Drew Schmidt	C++
InFER: Inference For Epidemic-related Risk	Chris Jewell, Barry Rowlingson	C++, Makefile
plot.xts Integration	Brian Peterson, Peter Carl, Ross Bennett
Natural language processing	Islam Sediek	HTML, Java, Database
ggenealogy	Di Cook, Michelle Graham, Susan VanderPlas
sparsecon	Sangkyun Lee