Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: mlr3: A modern object-oriented machine learning framework in R

[whedon]

Submitting author: @mllg (Michel Lang)
Repository: https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3
Version: v0.1.4
Editor: @terrytangyuan
Reviewers: @nhejazi , @osorensen

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[whedon]

Attempting to check references...

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Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #1893 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

[labarba]

@whedon generate pdf from branch joss

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch joss. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #1893 with the following error:

/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-cd1f92b00da7/lib/whedon.rb:114:in editor': undefined method[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-cd1f92b00da7/lib/whedon/compilers.rb:113:in pdf_from_markdown' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-cd1f92b00da7/lib/whedon/compilers.rb:13:ingenerate_pdf'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-cd1f92b00da7/bin/whedon:56:in prepare' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/command.rb:27:inrun'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in invoke_command' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor.rb:387:indispatch'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in start' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-cd1f92b00da7/bin/whedon:116:in from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bin/whedon:23:in load' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bin/whedon:23:in

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[whedon]

```Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

• 10.18637/jss.v028.i05 is OK
• 10.5281/zenodo.3541506 is OK

MISSING DOIs

• None

INVALID DOIs

• None
  ```

[labarba]

@openjournals/dev -- help with compilation error here?

[labarba]

@terrytangyuan 👋 — The author suggested you as handling editor. Can you take it?

[terrytangyuan]

@whedon assign @terrytangyuan as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @terrytangyuan

[arfon]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #1893 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

[arfon]

@whedon generate pdf from branch joss

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch joss. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

:point_right: Check article proof :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[mllg]

Note: We extended the funding part in section "Acknowledgments", fixed a typo, and added a DOI for the Weka reference.

[terrytangyuan]

@mllg Thanks for the update. If you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread. In addition, this list of people have already agreed to review for JOSS and may be suitable for this submission.

[mllg]

After skimming through the list filtering for R as primary programming language and machine learning as topic, these seem to be potential reviewers (in no particular order):

@robohyun66
@osorensen
@expectopatronum
@nhejazi

[terrytangyuan]

👋 Hi @robohyun66 @osorensen @expectopatronum @nhejazi, if you would like to review this submission, please let us know here and we need at least two reviewers!

[nhejazi]

Looks quite interesting! Happy to provide a review if helpful.

[mllg]

I took the opportunity to make one last minor change to the article. I'm wondering if I can also trigger the bot to re-create the article proof?

@whedon generate pdf from branch joss

[terrytangyuan]

@mllg There will be plenty of opportunities to make changes through the process so don’t worry about generating the pdf for now. You should push your changes to main branch though.

[osorensen]

Yes, happy to review.

[terrytangyuan]

@whedon assign @osorensen as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @osorensen

[terrytangyuan]

@whedon assign @nhejazi as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @nhejazi

[terrytangyuan]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/1903. Feel free to close this issue now!

[terrytangyuan]

@whedon add @osorensen as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @osorensen is now a reviewer

[mllg]

I've moved the paper to the master branch.

[terrytangyuan]

Thanks everyone for the quick responses. Please head over to #1903 for the review!