Google has again accepted R as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code.

R has successfully participated in GSoC in multiple previous years, and is excited to be returning this year as a mentoring organization.

In a nutshell: If you are a student looking to write some code for the R community, Google is willing to pay you $5000 for 3 months during this summer of 2012. A good starting point is the R GSoC wiki. Interested students or mentors are encouraged to discuss other project ideas on the gsoc-r Google group.

Note that GSoC is about coding. It is not intended to fund research; but many activities with R require code to advance our work, so the program can be very helpful to improving R.

The application process opened today (March 26th), and successful applicants typically post a draft application for feedback as soon as possible after the application period opens. After the close of the application process, R project mentors will discuss and rank applications, and then request funding from Google for the best applicants and projects.



List of projects

Interested R community Mentors may also add additional project ideas, and student applications are not limited to the ideas above.

For information, the admins this year are Toby Dylan Hocking and John Nash, with Brian Peterson and Virgilio Gomez as backups.

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