I have been prepared for GSoC under R Organization. The project name is bugRzilla: helping R community in submitting issues to R. BugRzilla have two fold goal. First is to access the data of R issue tracker. Second is to make easier to interect with it from R itself.
This GSoC project is focus on second goal.
Respository link is here - https://github.com/llrs/bugRzilla