[rkward-devel] JSS paper, round 2

[Stefan Rödiger]

On Sunday 05 December 2010 20:17:47 Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 05 December 2010, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> > Finally, I have my version in svn. It is in the
> > commented_version/...._pk.odt. I've mainly added few lines on the plot
> > history feature and edited a few things here and there, nothing major.
> 
> I haven't looked at your version, yet, but a few answers to your questions:
> > On first impression, this seems like a long draft. I have not seen any
> > of the JSS papers. Any idea, how long these papers are typically?
> 
> Our draft is quite long, and I wouldn't be too surprised, if reviewers will
> tell us to reduce this a bit. However, looking at a couple of the recent
> papers (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37) we don't seem to be completely off
> limits. Of course the question of what exactly the editors expect an
> article for the R GUIs special issue to look like is a good question.

There is no page limit. (http://www.jstatsoft.org/instructions)

> 
> > Do they allow color figures? Some journals ask the authors to pay for
> > them.
> 
> For all I know, there is no printed version of the JSS at all, so this
> should not be an issue. Other articles do have color figures.

True. Color is just fine.

> 
> > Do they allow footnotes?
> 
> I can't find any statement on footnotes, but other articles do have
> footnotes.

They do and use them.

> 
> > I am not sure how Stefan is planning, but we may need to create a tex
> > version once we reach a stable enough draft to get a better idea of
> > the length and format.
> 
> Well, the deadline for submission is December, 31st. So I guess we should
> aim to have a stable draft (i.e. complete content) next weekend, and start
> to focus on the conversion to tex and the fine points (spelling, language,
> style, etc.) directly after. Stefan, do you have a tentative schedule?

That's is fine. As stated before we have no real page limit (but we shouldn't 
make it an endless story anyways). The stile for the literature and paper 
layout is defined by JSS. I hope the transition to tex works as well.

Content wise the code example is missing mainly. We will use the t-test. The 
other stuff is at least started.

Some aspects will be dropped. Package-management just lost it figures and if I 
remember correctly Thomas you rather opted to omit the section completely.

@all: Is there anything else that is not needed from your point of view?

We go for the schedule as Thomas pointed out.
- Finish content / this week (next week a bit)
- Redo German figures (figures will be settled to 8.4 or 16.8 cm in width)
- remove duplicate information or sections which not seem to fit in /  this 
week 
- Reorder sections / end of this week
- Add citations properly / This week and next week

Regarding spelling, language and some content we have another author yet to 
announce who will help us.

> 
> Regards
> Thomas

Regards
Stefan