The project idea page is up! https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2018/wiki/Sampling-and-volume-approximation
Please, let me know if some R expert is interested in co-mentoring that project. Best, Vissarion. On 16 November 2017 at 17:25, Vissarion Fisikopoulos <fisi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
