[PRE REVIEW]: unifir: A Unifying API for Working with Unity in R

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Submitting author: @mikemahoney218 (Michael Mahoney)
Repository: https://github.com/ropensci/unifir
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Version: v0.2.0
Editor: @kyleniemeyer
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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1109/VRAIS.1993.380793 is OK
- 10.1007/s12144-017-9648-y is OK
- 10.1080/13658816.2020.1830997 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.04060 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1007/s42489-020-00069-6 may be a valid DOI for title: Creating Immersive Virtual Environments Based on Open Geospatial Data and Game Engines

INVALID DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102102 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2008.08.002 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix

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[kyleniemeyer]

Hi @mikemahoney218, I see your submission was already accepted by rOpenSci. That's great! However, this may not quite meet our requirements for research software, so the editorial board is going to take a look. This should hopefully take about a week; any additional context/justification you can give would be helpful.

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Submission flagged for editorial review.

[mikemahoney218]

Happily! I'd point to the section under "why do this": https://github.com/ropensci/unifir#why-do-this as well as to the realm of IVE research (papers from my group include our work with {terrainr} -- https://www.mm218.dev/papers/vrs_2021.pdf and https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04060 ; research from other groups includes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42489-020-00069-6 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2020.1830997 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622818312207 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069608000983 , and a search on Google Scholar for "immersive virtual environment" + "Unity" yields 2,970 results). We view this as software to "support... the execution of research experiments" by enabling IVEs to be produced in an efficient and reproducible manner, hopefully improving the openness and reliability of the IVE literature and experiments conducted within IVEs as a result. Let me know if I can provide more information!

[mikemahoney218]

I should also mention that I bring up {terrainr} because JOSS has already published software from our group that produces IVEs ( https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04060 ) -- {unifir} is a direct extension of that work, and we believe it qualifies as research software for the same reasons that {terrainr} did back in January.

[kyleniemeyer]

@mikemahoney218 thanks for that!

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1109/VRAIS.1993.380793 is OK
- 10.1007/s12144-017-9648-y is OK
- 10.1080/13658816.2020.1830997 is OK
- 10.1007/s42489-020-00069-6 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.04060 is OK
- 10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102102 is OK
- 10.1016/j.jeem.2008.08.002 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

[mikemahoney218]

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[mikemahoney218]

@danielskatz Sorry about that! Should be corrected now.

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[kyleniemeyer]

@mikemahoney218 this has already received some positive feedback from editors so we'll go ahead and proceed to review.

@hugoledoux can you edit this one?

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[hugoledoux]

@hugoledoux can you edit this one?

I'm on holidays so sorry cannot.

[mikemahoney218]

@kyleniemeyer Let me know if I can be of any help finding an editor! In case it's useful, @/kbarnhart was going to handle the review for the related {terrainr} package, and @/danielskatz handled the review once we clarified it was rOpenSci and didn't need to go for a full review.

[kyleniemeyer]

@mikemahoney218 Ah, I forgot this was already accepted by rOpenSci (ropensci/software-review#521). In that case, since this has been reviewed as in scope, acceptance in JOSS is fast tracked, and I will both edit and "review".

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