This wiki page will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2010.

Previous projects are listed on the soc08 and soc09 pages.

R has been accepted as one of the participating organisation as of March 18, 2010.

As per the GSoC 2010 timeline:

• the student application period does not start until March 29, and ends April 9;
• by April 21 all mentors have to be signed up, and scoring/ranking has to be completed and double applicants will then be filtered out;
• accepted proposals will be announced on April 26.
• coding commences May 24.

See the GSoC timeline for full details.

Project ideas can be listed below on per-topic Wiki pages. Please follow the formatting used for the first suggestion.

• suggestion_form Use this to add new proposals by copying the page content
• gpclib_replacement Replacement for gpclib. (R/GEOS)
• nosql_interface NoSQL interface for R
• cran_stats Aggregate CRAN package download statistics across multiple mirrors
• crantastic2 Enhancements to crantastic to encourage further community building
• interactive-check Run R CMD check interactively during package development
• hyperspec Extensions to the hyperSpec package for hyperspectral data
• adinr Automatic Differentiation (AD) in R with ADMB, cppAD or other tools.
• vrs Virtual R Supercomputer provides an R interface to BOINC, the distributed computing platform.
• sra Social Relations Analyses in R
• rbeancounter Port Beancounter to R and extend it
• syrfr Symbolic Regression capable of discovering the functions which fit input data best using genetic algorithm search
• rpy2ff Persistent storage-based vectors and arrays used by both R and Python
• rserve_javascript Javascript client for Rserve using nixysa
• blogweave implement SWeave driver for blog postings
• ritk ITK functionality in R

Submission of unsolicited proposals (via, say, the mailing list mentioned in the next paragraph) is certainly welcome. However, each proposal has a big barrier to pass: it will to need explain why this particular project is of use to the community, and it will have to show how it can be achieved in three months. At a minimum, a submission should also include a review of related packages that address the same or similar problems and discuss how these packages are not sufficient to the task.

A Google groups mailing list has been created for mentors and prospective students. Please subscribe so that you can post to gsoc-r@googlegroups.com for any discussions pertaining to R and the GSoC 2010.