[gnu-soc] Gnuastro C library Python/R/Julia wrappers for GSOC 2020

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Hello,

Can you please include the following task (in P.S) for Gnuastro in GSOC 
2020?

Thank a lot for organizing this,
Cheers,
Mohammad

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P.S.
Name of the GNU program: GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)

Summary of the project/idea:
Python/R/Julia wrappers for C library of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)

Little paragraph explaining the project/idea:
Gnuastro is a large collection of data analysis programs and C/C++ 
libraries for (astronomical) data manipulation and analysis. Gnuastro is 
primarily written in C because astronomical datasets are large and thus 
need to be efficient. The full list of programs and libraries are 
available in [1] and [2]. The programs use the libraries for high-level 
operations directly on the command-line. But many data science 
operations are today done in the high-level language environments of 
Python, R or Julia. All three languages have low-level and well-defined 
interfaces with C libraries. Gnuastro therefore has a task [3] to define 
a low-level wrapper infra-structure in Gnuastro to easily use the full 
Gnuastro library in any of these higher-level languages. This will be a 
wonderful chance to master any of these high-level languages (which are 
almost fully written in C themselves), while also working on  data 
science/analysis.

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-programs-list.html
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-library.html
[3] http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?13786

Skills required: C programming, C interface of Python or R or Julia (any 
language is fine).

Contact address for interested students: address@hidden