JOSS Review - paper comments
General comments
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It would be useful for the paper to contain evidence of at least some usage or output, maybe not as compelte as https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03673, but some sort of simulation output demonstrating use on a practical problem. -
Links to examples could be more descriptive. Also expand on "r2ogs6 includes functions to create R scripts from existing OpenGeoSys 6 benchmarks that will allow a quick start for new users" (perhaps seperate out into a different "quick start" example?)
Statement of need
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Line 35 - 47: References needed in first paragraph
State of the field
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Lines 60-65: While other software packages are referenced it is unclear what underlying computational core (if any) they are wrapping and how there functionality compares to r2ogs6
Quality of the writing
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While the standard of English is good the paper could do with further proof reading both for clarity and formality. For example Line 70-73 "Especially,..." and Line 53 "model setups get more and more complex"
References
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Carnell R. should point to CRAN not github as for other R packages