[Rprotobuf-commits] r843 - papers/jss

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Author: murray
Date: 2014-01-23 06:30:33 +0100 (Thu, 23 Jan 2014)
New Revision: 843

Modified:
   papers/jss/article.Rnw
Log:
Add a few improvements to the abstract suggested by Arif Merchant to
make it more self contained.  After the first sentence explains that
pipelines of applications need to communicate with each other, briefly
describe the problem with common solutions such as CSV files in a new
sentence, before transitioning to the third sentence to talk about
protocol buffers.  Then after this, uncomment Jeroen's sentence from
elsewhere in the paper which I had moved here which describes how they
offer a unique combination of ...

After this change, section 2 starts at the top of page 3 instead of
the last line of page 2, which is a nice change in the layout.



Modified: papers/jss/article.Rnw
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--- papers/jss/article.Rnw	2014-01-23 04:54:40 UTC (rev 842)
+++ papers/jss/article.Rnw	2014-01-23 05:30:33 UTC (rev 843)
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 \usepackage{booktabs}
 \usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
 
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%5
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % Spelling Standardization:
 % Protocol Buffers, not protocol buffers
 % large-scale, not large scale
+% Oxford comma: foo, bar, and baz.
 
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 %% declarations for jss.cls %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -34,11 +36,20 @@
 \Abstract{
 Modern data collection and analysis pipelines often involve
 a sophisticated mix of applications written in general purpose and
-specialized programming languages.  Protocol Buffers are a popular
+specialized programming languages.  
+There are many formats used to import and export data between
+different programs or systems, such as CSV, but they are usually
+verbose, inefficient, not type-safe, or tied to a specific programming language.
+Protocol Buffers are a popular
 method of serializing structured data between applications---while remaining
-independent of programming languages or operating system.  The
-\CRANpkg{RProtoBuf} package provides a complete interface between this
-library and the \proglang{R} environment for statistical computing.
+independent of programming languages or operating system.
+They offer a unique combination of features, performance, and maturity that seems
+particulary well suited for data-driven applications and numerical
+computing.
+The
+\CRANpkg{RProtoBuf} package provides a complete interface to Protocol
+Buffers from the
+\proglang{R} environment for statistical computing.
 %TODO(ms) keep it less than 150 words.
 % Maybe add Jeroen's sentence:
 % JO: added this sentence to the conclustion, but could use it in abstract as well.