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data.table
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: 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?
TODO: describe how this project will help data.table and the larger R community.
- Arun Srinivasan <[email protected]> is a co-author of the data.table package.
- TODO: Need a second co-mentor. Matt Dowle or one of the author contributors to data.table?
TODO: Several tests that potential students can do to demonstrate their capabilities for this particular project. Ask some hard questions that will give you insight about how the students write code to solve problems. You’ll see that the harder the questions that you ask, the easier it will be for you to choose between the students that apply for your project! Please modify the suggestions below to make them specific for your project.
- Easy: something that any useR should be able to do, e.g. download some existing package listed in the Related Work, and run it on some example data.
- Medium: something a bit more complicated. You can encourage students to write a script or some functions that show their R coding abilities.
- Hard: Can the student write a package with Rd files, tests, and vigettes? If your package interfaces with non-R code, can the student write in that other language?
Students, please post a link to your test results here.