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Welcome to the R-GSOC wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

The goal of R in GSOC is to train people how to write R packages, including new packages, and contributing to existing packages.

Administrators are Toby Dylan Hocking <toby.hocking@r-project.org>, Brian Peterson <brian.peterson@r-project.org>, Vijay Barve <vijay.barve@gmail.com>, Narayani Barve <TODO>. Everyone who wants to participate in Google Summer of Code with R should

• first please read the R-GSOC-FAQ and the Google FAQ so you know how GSOC works,
• then join the low-traffic google group gsoc-r@googlegroups.com (when you sign up, make sure to write your GSOC project idea in the text box “You can send additional information to the manager by filling in the text box below” – we have a policy of rejecting applicants who leave it blank).

Overview of GSOC

In short, each contributor selected for a GSoC project will get paid to work on an R package for 10 weeks during the summer:

• Mentors can add projects to give ideas to possible contributors, see the Google FAQ to see if you are eligible as a contributor.
• Possible contributors 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 opening communication with project mentors, each contributor must write an application with a detailed timeline, following our application template. Successful applications are shared with mentors for feedback before submission of a final application on Google.
• Google will award a certain number of contributor slots to the R project.
• The GSOC-R administrators and mentors will rank projects in order of application quality and importance to the R project, and the top projects will be funded.
• Contributors get paid a stipend by Google 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 the official timeline:

When	What
X Feb	Org app deadline
X Feb	Orgs announced; Begin telling potential students about GSOC
X Apr	Contributor application deadline
X Apr	Proposal Rankings due
X May	Bonding period
X May	Coding begins
X July	Mentors submit Midterm evals
X Sep	Mentors submit Final evals
X Nov	Extended deadline final evals due (not recommended)