attic/rfc_template.md

In mlr-org/mlr3forecasting: Forecasting for 'mlr3'

Feature Name: `do_something`
Start Date: 2019-11-04
Target Date:

Summary

Add method foo and bar, this allows to baz.

Motivation

We need baz in order to foo. This can also be longer and more verbose.

Guide-level explanation

Sometimes, when applying a forecasting method, what occurs is ...

Example:

foo = 1
bar = 2
do_something(foo, bar)

I propose to change this to bar, as this would ...

Reference-level explanation

Internally, the function would look the following:

Example:

do_something = function(a, b) {
  ...
}

Rationale, drawbacks and alternatives

This design seems fairly obvious choice in the design space. The main alternative to this proposal is not to implement it, and let users to calculate joined subslices from indexes or pointers.

Prior art

There exists a function that implements the API as here...

Introduced Dependencies

This solution would introduce dependencies on the following (additional) packages:

Those packages either depend on or import the following other (additional) packages:

Using this package would allow us to ... instead of re-implementing and maintining N loc ourselves.

Unresolved questions

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