Hi Lawson, I know from an experienced Java programmer, trying to make a binding to R, which is difficult to deal with particularities of connecting with R efficently (I could ask him for details if a student is interested in the project). I think R isn't comparable to what iGraph could provide, every day more studies results are presented in R and they are not necessarily described in network format. A front-end to R could be another interesting project idea though. Cheers,
Hernán 2012/3/9 Lawson English <lengli...@cox.net> > A binding to R would be relatively trivial, I think. A binding to iGraph > would be a bit more challenging and would allow for things like using > Connectors to directly create/define iGraph data structures and use > iGraph's API to modify their behavior. > > Lawson > > > On 3/9/12 6:07 PM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote: > > Name: A binding to R > Level: Advanced > Possible mentor: ? > Possible second mentor: ? > > Description > > With the increased popularity of high-level statistical programming > language and environments for data analysis like R, a way to interface this > package is becoming a must have for Smalltalk, since it implements complex > and unrivalled statistical techniques for data manipulation and > presentation, like Analysis of Variance, Covariance, Time Series, > Generalized Linear Models, Additive Models, Non-linear Regressions, Tree > Models, Multivariate Statistics, etc. besides the many mathematical > functions, which are used in fields from economics to medicine and > engineering. It is estimated that R posseses about 2 million of users > worldwide and more than 2000 add-ons and increasing everyday through > repositories like CRAN and Crantastic.org > > Technical Details > > The student should know or be motivated to learn statistics with the R > environment and language, and its fundamental workflow: importing and > preparing the data, and finally running the analysis, and presenting the > results. Dealing with R sessions and presentation of results (like vectors > and plots) will be challenging too. > > Benefits to the Student > > The student will gain invaluable experience from two complementary > environments, and his experience with the interface technology choosed will > be useful for the many projects where Smalltalk needs help from external > systems. > > Benefits to the Community > > The goal of this project is to build a wrapper to interface R, an open > source statistical programming language, providing a whole range of missing > functionality to Smalltalk. This binding could complement the R environment > where a general programming environment is needed, attracting many > statisticians, and will open Smalltalk to domain-specific areas as diverse > as Clinical Trials, Finance and Machine Learning. > > 2012/3/9 Janko Mivšek <janko.miv...@eranova.si> > >> Dear Smalltalkers, >> >> We just submitted the application to this year GSoC, now let we wait >> with fingers crossed for Google until next Friday to decide. I think we >> have quite some chance, specially because we collected and very well >> described 22 project ideas: >> >> http://gsoc2012.esug.org/ideas >> >> There is still a time for ideas, so if someone has still half finished >> one, please finish and publish it. Also authors of ideas please check if >> your idea is put correctly on above page. >> >> Best regards >> Janko and Carla >> >> -- >> Carla F. Griggio, Janko Mivšek >> Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team >> http://gsoc2012.esug.org >> >> > > > -- > Hernán Morales > Information Technology Manager, > Institute of Veterinary Genetics. > National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). > La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. > Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. > Internal: 422 > Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. > > >
