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+## Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021
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+If you are a student and interested in working on this project, please consider applying to work on it via GSoC 2021.  Google Summer of Code is an initiative to support students to learn about and contribute to open-source software projects, while getting payed.  The R community has been mentoring many GSoC projects over the years.  For more details, please see the GSoC 2021 proposal ['matrixStats: Consistent Support for Name Attributes'](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki/matrixStats%3A-Consistent-Support-for-Name-Attributes).  **The deadline for student applications is on [April 13, 2021](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki) with a soft deadline the week before.**
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+## Introduction
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 The matrixStats package provides highly optimized functions for
 computing common summaries over rows and columns of matrices,
 e.g. `rowQuantiles()`. There are also functions that operate on vectors,

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 # matrixStats: Functions that Apply to Rows and Columns of Matrices (and to Vectors)
 
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+## Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021
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+If you are a student and interested in working on this project, please consider applying to work on it via GSoC 2021.  Google Summer of Code is an initiative to support students to learn about and contribute to open-source software projects, while getting payed.  The R community has been mentoring many GSoC projects over the years.  For more details, please see the GSoC 2021 proposal ['matrixStats: Consistent Support for Name Attributes'](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki/matrixStats%3A-Consistent-Support-for-Name-Attributes).  **The deadline for student applications is on [April 13, 2021](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2021/wiki) with a soft deadline the week before.**
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+---
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+## Introduction
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 The matrixStats package provides highly optimized functions for
 computing common summaries over rows and columns of matrices,
 e.g. `rowQuantiles()`. There are also functions that operate on vectors,