Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: set6: R6 Mathematical Sets Interface

[whedon]

Submitting author: @RaphaelS1 (Raphael E. B. Sonabend)
Repository: https://github.com/xoopR/set6
Version: v0.1.4
Editor: @dpsanders
Reviewers: @dmbates, davidjohannesmeyer, @davidjohannesmeyer
Managing EiC: Kevin M. Moerman

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Statistical information for the repository '2355' was gathered on 2020/06/18.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Raphael                          2            98              2          100.00

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Raphael Sonabend             96          100.0          0.0                6.25

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Reference check summary:

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.2647458 is OK
- 10.1093/carcin/bgs084 is OK
- 10.18637/jss.v031.i02 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

[whedon]

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

[arfon]

👋 @RaphaelS1 - Thanks for your submission to JOSS. As described in our blog post announcing the reopening of JOSS, we're currently working in a "reduced service mode", limiting the number of papers assigned to any individual editor.

Since reopening JOSS earlier in the month we've had a very large number of papers submitted and as such, yours has been put in our backlog that we will be working through over the coming weeks and months.

Thanks in advance for your patience!

[RaphaelS1]

Thanks for the update!

[dpsanders]

@arfon I volunteer to edit this submission.

[dpsanders]

Guess that message should have been directed to @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman, sorry.

[arfon]

@whedon assign @dpsanders as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @dpsanders

[arfon]

Thanks @dpsanders - you can always grab the paper yourself with @whedon assign me as editor

[dpsanders]

👋 Hi @RaphaelS1 -- thanks for submitting to JOSS!

Looking at the paper, I have a couple of questions and suggestions:

• Could you please add a couple of usage examples
• Describe in more detail how your package compares to the sets package
• What do you mean by the "symbolic representation" and "lazy evaluation" in this context? Maybe you could give examples.
• Please add the title, date and journal for the Meyer-Hornik paper in the bibliography.
• How does this compare to similar packages in other computer languages?

Thanks!

[dpsanders]

Also, could you please comment about the necessity for the C++ code in the submission?

[RaphaelS1]

Hi @dpsanders thanks for the speedy feedback! I've added to the paper as suggested and pushed the latest copy to the same repo as before (I have assumed the questions were intended to be answered in the paper and not here but let me know otherwise).

[dpsanders]

Thanks @RaphaelS1. You can make sure that the latest version is correct with the following command

[dpsanders]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

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

[RaphaelS1]

Thanks @dpsanders, that's indeed the latest version

[dpsanders]

Thanks @RaphaelS1, the new version of the paper nicely explains the scope and use of the package. BTW, some more possibly relevant Julia packages include LazySets.jl, DomainSets.jl and SpecialSets.jl. But for example your lazy power set functionality looks pretty unique to me.

[dpsanders]

Could you please suggest possible reviewers from the list mentioned in the first post above (without tagging them with @).

[RaphaelS1]

@dpsanders suggestions as follows: jkanche, tylerwmarrs, kinow, billchenxi, mcavs, jaeyk

[dpsanders]

:wave: Hi @mcavs, @even4void and @drvinceknight! Would any of you be available and willing to review this submission to JOSS? Thanks!

[even4void]

@dpsanders Unfortunately I don't really feel qualified to review this article. Maybe Dirk Eddelbuettel would be a better fit given the scope of the paper?

[dpsanders]

@even4void OK, thanks for the suggestion!

[dpsanders]

👋 @eduPH, @mdavezac and @adibender: Would any of you be available and able to review this submission to JOSS? Thanks!

[mdavezac]

Apologies, I'm currently involved in another JOSS review and in crunch time in other things.

[RaphaelS1]

@adibender and I are collaborators on other projects so probably not a fair reviewer here unfortunately

[EduPH]

I am sorry but Im really busy these days.

[dpsanders]

@whedon add @dmbates as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @dmbates is now a reviewer

[labarba]

👋 hi @dpsanders : it looks like this needs a bit of extra effort to find a second reviewer!

[dpsanders]

👋 @labarba. Yes this submission has proved challenging! I'm waiting on responses from more people I've reached out to by email.

[dpsanders]

@whedon add davidjohannesmeyer as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, davidjohannesmeyer is now a reviewer

[dpsanders]

@whedon add @davidjohannesmeyer as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @davidjohannesmeyer is now a reviewer

[dpsanders]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2598.