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data.table
Toby Dylan Hocking edited this page Oct 4, 2018
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The data.table package is an invaluable tool for data analysis. TODO more background info.
TODO What other R packages with similar functionality already exist? Why aren’t they good enough?
Find one or more students to fix/close some of the hundreds of outstanding issues. TODO add more details.
- details about which issues are a priority for a 3-month project.
- Are there separate groups of issues that would be good to assign to separate students?
- Maybe one student could work on code coverage and/or performance testing (Rperform).
TODO: describe how this project will help data.table and the larger R community.
- Toby Dylan Hocking <toby.hocking@r-project.org> is a user of data.table, and can be a mentor, but there needs to be two mentors. So any potential students would need to find a second co-mentor who is familiar with the data.table internals. Arun Srinivasan, co-author of data.table, does not have enough time to mentor for GSOC2018. To find a co-mentor I would suggest finding an outstanding data.table issue, and then submit a Pull Request (PR) which fixes the issue, in order to prove that you have the skills needed to contribute to data.table. After your PR is merged, ask the person who merged it if they can mentor you in GSOC.