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Welcome to the gsoc2017 wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2017. Administrators are Toby Dylan Hocking <toby.hocking@r-project.org>, Brian Peterson <brian.peterson@r-project.org>, and Virgilio Gomez Rubio as a backup. Everyone who wants to participate in Google Summer of Code with R should join the low-traffic google group gsoc-r@googlegroups.com (when you sign up, make sure to mention for which project you want to be a mentor or student). Please read the R-GSOC-FAQ and the Google FAQ before posting questions to the google group!

Overview of GSOC

In short, each student will get paid $5500 to work on an R package for 3 months during the summer:

  • Mentors can add projects to give ideas to students.
  • Students should look at the list of projects to see if any project interests them. Before emailing project mentors, please do at least one project Test and post a link to your solution on the proposal’s wiki page. Then email the project mentors to express your interest, and describe any prior experience.
  • After getting approval from the project mentors, each student should write an application with a detailed timeline, following our application template. Students should send their application to their mentors for proofreading before submitting it to Google.
  • Google will award a certain number of student slots to the R project.
  • The GSOC-R administrators and mentors will rank projects in order of importance to the R project, and the top projects will be funded.
  • Students get paid $5500 for writing free/open-source R packages for 3 months during the summer.
  • Mentors get code written for their project, but no money.

Proposed Projects

See: table of proposed coding projects

Status and Timeline

Selected events from TODO link to official timeline when it is posted.

Previous GSOC ideas and projects

2017 is the third GSOC for which will use GitHub to organize the R project participation in GSOC. Organization info for previous years can be found on the RGSOC2016 wiki.

Two slides for briefly explaining GSOC

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