[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp project for GSoC18

[Vissarion Fisikopoulos]

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 <fisikop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 November 2017 at 17:14, Qiang Kou <qkou at 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 <edd at 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
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Qiang Kou
>> qkou at umail.iu.edu
>> School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
>>