I think we already have the page for GSOC 2018: https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2018/wiki/table-of-proposed-coding-projects
Best, KK On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 16 November 2017 at 16:35, Vissarion Fisikopoulos wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I maintain C++ code for random sampling and volume approximation of > | polyhedra (see https://github.com/vissarion/volume_approximation). > | > | I would like to propose a GSoC project to create an R package that > | will use functions of that code inside R. In particular, the package > | will provide functionality for MCMC geometric walks (variations of > | hit-and-run) and volume computation of polyhedra. It could also use > | existing MCMC walks from R. My motivation is the availability of the > | current software tool in a broader set of users (I have requests from > | researchers that want to use the code but have no knowledge of C++). > | > | I had a discussion in GSoC mentor summit last month with the GSoC > | admin of r-project and he proposed to send a message to this list to > | find a second mentor since my knowledge in R is limited. > | > | What do you think? > > Sure, but you don't need our approval for that. Discussion of GSoC topics > will happen as usual under the umbrella of R's particpiation in GSoC when > and > where questions are discussed. I think this a pretty large number (10 out > of > 29 ?) of projects used Rcpp in some way. I was involved in two which > extended > existing packages in the Rcpp space. > > > That said, we should start a wiki page with possible topics: > > - have Rcpp catch up to ALTREP: very important, possibly a lot of work > > - smaller idea I had recently: generalize Jens's bit64 which provides > integer64 to possibly make it "templated" and provide both int64_t and > uint64_t. > > - lots of others to be added... > > Where should have that page? > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > -- Qiang Kou q...@umail.iu.edu School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
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