Tasks for students

The project ideas need to be small tasks (each doable in about a day) suitable for high school students. No developing new R packages from scratch. But some appropriate ideas would be

• closing issues
• fixing simple bugs
• updating documentation
• setting up pkgdown web pages for projects that don't already have it
• setting up CI for projects that don't already have it

Mentor responsibilities are listed on https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities#mentor_responsibilities

TODO https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/org-sample-tasks

Tasks list

• Find issues which are labeled as beginner-task, and fix/close them.

  • 6 in data.table as of 16 Oct 2019.
  • other packages?

• Find packages without pkgdown web sites, and make them.

  • https://github.com/tdhock/penaltyLearning
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegOptimal
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegDP
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegJoint
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegPipeline
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegDisk
  • https://github.com/tdhock/animint2
  • https://github.com/tdhock/namedCapture
  • https://github.com/tdhock/directlabels
  • https://github.com/tdhock/nc
  • https://github.com/tdhock/WeightedROC

• Fix CRAN packages with WARN, e.g.

  • https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_re2r.html, e.g. solaris warnings should be easy to fix by moving unicode text to inst/extdata/file_with_unicode.txt
  • https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Segmentor3IsBack.html

• Add URL/BugReports to DESCRIPTION file of R packages that are on github, e.g.

  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegOptimal
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegDP
  • https://github.com/tdhock/PeakSegJoint
  • https://github.com/tdhock/directlabels
  • https://github.com/tdhock/WeightedROC

• Restructure package and documentation

  • https://github.com/avinashbarnwal/Momentum-Strategy

• Run example code provided within package documentation and report errors through issue reporting

  • https://github.com/vijaybarve/bdvis
  • https://github.com/vijaybarve/taxotools

Mentors:

• Toby Dylan Hocking, toby.hocking@r-project.org, https://github.com/tdhock
• Benaiah C. Ubah, ubah.ben22@gmail.com, https://github.com/benubah
• Avinash Barnwal, avinashbarnwal123@gmail.com, https://github.com/avinashbarnwal
• John C. Nash, nashjc@uottawa.ca, https://github.com/nashjc
• Vijay Barve, vijay.barve@gmail.com, https://github.com/vijaybarve