table of proposed coding projects

Mentors, please add your project proposal as a row in the table below, and COPY THIS Proposal Template. Each proposal will to need explain

• how to contact the two mentors required for each student project,
• why this particular project is of use to the community,
• how it can be achieved in three months,
• a review of related packages that address the same or similar problems, and a discussion how these packages are not sufficient to the task,
• tests that students can do to demonstrate a minimum amount of interest and ability.

Students,

• before submitting an application, please read the project proposals in the table below, email the mentors with whom you are interested in working, and add links to your completed tests on the relevant wiki pages.
• after having been accepted into GSOC, and before the GSOC mid-term evaluation deadline, you need to post a link to your current code in the Results column.

Mentors	Proposal	Non-R languages?	Status	Students	Results
NAME1, NAME2	COPY THIS Proposal Template
Sangkyun Lee	sparsecon		have student	Janek Idziak
Eun-kyung Lee, Di Cook	nlmeviz		have student	Nafiz Hamid
Di Cook, Michelle Graham, Susan VanderPlas	ggenealogy		have student	Lindsay Rutter
C Sievert, S VanderPlas, TD Hocking	Animint	Javascript	possible student	Jun Cai, Kevin Ferris
Gergely Daroczi	pander	markdown, C++	need student
John Nash, TD Hocking	Stochastic Average Gradient	C	possible student	Xin Zhou
TD Hocking, H Wickham	Test timings on Travis	git	possible student	Akash Tandon
Bernd Bischl, Michel Lang	Improving mlr’s hyperparameter and tuning system for efficient model selection	no	Have potential students. All done.
Lars Kotthoff, Julia Schiffner, Bernd Bischl (if needed and other projects not selected)	Improving mlr’s visualisations	no	Have potential students. All done.
Aydin Demircioglu, Bernd Bischl (co-mentor)	Implement several ensemble SVMs in mlr	no	Have potential students. All done.
M Corvellac, C Parmer	ggplotly		need student
Dirk Eddelbuettel, Ryan Curtin, Drew Schmidt (backup)	Cpp Version of ARPACK and Integration with (Rcpp)Armadillo	C++	need student	Yixuan Qiu (potential student)
Spedicato, Giorgio A, Christophe Dutang	markovchain	C++, Rcpp,git	four student candidates
Malka Gorfine, Li Hsu	Multivariate Survival analysis		possible student	Vinnie Monaco
Garrett Dancik, Yuanbin Ru	GEO-analysis-with-Shiny		possible student	Jasmine Dumas (potential student)
Drew Schmidt, Christian Heckendorf, Wei-Chen Chen	Performance Analysis with pbdPAPI		need student
Perry de Valpine, Chris Paciorek	NIMBLE compiler from part of R to C++	C++	need student
Norm Matloff, Drew Schmidt	Rth: Parallel R Through Thrust	C++	possible student	Shyam Venkataraman (potential student)
Henrik Bengtsson, Héctor Corrada Bravo	Subsetted and parallel computations in matrixStats	C	need student
Guy Yollin	wrds package		need student
Doug Martin	covariance matrix estimators		possible student	Rohit Arora
Eric Zivot	factorAnalytics package		need student
Chris Jewell, Barry Rowlingson	InFER: Inference For Epidemic-related Risk	C++, Makefile	need student
Perry de Valpine, Chris Paciorek	statistical algorithms in NIMBLE		need student
Dirk Eddelbuettel, other RcppCore members	Extend Rcpp	C++	need student(s)
Brian Peterson, Peter Carl, Ross Bennett	plot.xts Integration		need student(s)
Brian Peterson, Peter Carl	Convert Dowd's Code	Matlab	need student(s)
Islam Sediek	Natural language processing	HTML , Java , Database	need student(s)
Javier Otegui, Robert Guralnick, Jorge Soberón	Biodiversity SNS		have student	Vijay Barve