Hi everybody, just another Google Summer of Code project idea.
Best, Manuel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cranlab -- "You can't control what you can't measure" [0] Mentor: Manuel J. A. Eugster Summary: The aim of this project is the (1) implementation of software metrics to analyze R packages and (2) the creation of a CRAN software metrics monitor. Required skills: Good R programming skills. Basic knowledge of software engineering and software metrics measurements are useful. Description: Software metrics are measures of some properties of software. In software engineering they are used to monitor improvement of projects; common metrics include 'source lines of code', 'code coverage' or 'software package metrics' (see, e.g., [1]). First step of this project is the implementation of an R package which calculates software metrics of R packages. The implementation must be flexible, i.e., a basic set of metrics will be implemented, but others can be added later on. Second step is the creation of a CRAN software metrics monitor. This means a service which continuously calculates software metrics of CRAN packages and provides the (raw) data. As a first analyzing step a dashboard provides simple basic plots of the data. Programming exercise: How many functions has the archetypes package [2]? Write some R code which counts them. [0] Tom DeMarco. Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_metrics [2] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/archetypes/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel