On 16 November 2017 at 17:14, Qiang Kou <q...@umail.iu.edu> wrote: > I think we already have the page for GSOC 2018: > > https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2018/wiki/table-of-proposed-coding-projects > > Best, > > KK
Thank you both for the feedback. I will add my project idea there. Still I am in a quest of a second mentor, expert in Rcpp. Best, Vissarion. > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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