Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: prisonbrief: An R package that returns tidy data from the World Prison Brief website

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Submitting author: @danilofreire (Danilo Freire)
Repository: https://github.com/danilofreire/prisonbrief
Version: v0.1.0
Editor: @karthik
Reviewer: @benmarwick

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[arfon]

👋 @openjournals/ropensci - would this be a good candidate for rOpenSci?

[maelle]

Thanks @arfon, after discussion no.

[danilofreire]

Thanks @arfon and @maelle for considering the package for rOpenSci. That was very nice of you!

@arfon, I was also reading the list of potential reviewers and I thought that maybe @jsta would be a good fit. He wrote he is comfortable reviewing api wrappers in R, and that's basically what our package does. Also, @benmarwick stated that he's interested in social sciences, which is the main area of our article. We would be very happy to have them reviewing our code. Of course, we are open to any suggestion you may have. Many thanks!

[karthik]

@danilofreire Thank you for the submission. I read over the paper in the repo and it reads very much like a vignette on how to use the package. Your paper.md must provide a high level description of what the software does and what some of the potential research applications are. You an still have a detailed vignette describing exactly how to use the software.

[danilofreire]

@karthik Thank you for your comments. I have submitted a new version of paper.md. It now includes only a high-level description of the package and some potential applications as requested.

[karthik]

@whedon assign @karthik as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @karthik

[karthik]

@danilofreire Thanks. I've reached out to Ben to see if he would serve as reviewer. Will update this thread when I know more.

[benmarwick]

Happy to help with reviewing this.

[karthik]

@whedon assign @benmarwick as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @benmarwick

[karthik]

@whedon start review magic-word=bananas

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/361. Feel free to close this issue now!

[danilofreire]

Thanks very much @karthik and @benmarwick. Happy to read your comments.