[Rprotobuf-commits] r903 - papers/jss

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Author: murray
Date: 2014-11-25 00:06:05 +0100 (Tue, 25 Nov 2014)
New Revision: 903

Modified:
   papers/jss/article.Rnw
Log:
Remove a duplicate word in the last paragraph of the introduction, add
a word to fix a linewrap in section 4, and add a paragraph to the
beginning of section 7 to make it more interesting.  More work on
sections 6,7, and 8 is sorely needed.



Modified: papers/jss/article.Rnw
===================================================================
--- papers/jss/article.Rnw	2014-11-19 17:22:57 UTC (rev 902)
+++ papers/jss/article.Rnw	2014-11-24 23:06:05 UTC (rev 903)
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 Section~\ref{sec:rprotobuf-basic} describes the interactive \proglang{R} interface
 provided by the \pkg{RProtoBuf} package, and introduces the two main abstractions:
 \emph{Messages} and \emph{Descriptors}.  Section~\ref{sec:rprotobuf-classes}
-details the implementation details of the main S4 classes and methods.  
+details the implementation of the main S4 classes and methods.  
 Section~\ref{sec:types} describes the challenges of type coercion
 between \proglang{R} and other languages.  Section~\ref{sec:evaluation} introduces a
 general \proglang{R} language schema for serializing arbitrary \proglang{R} objects and evaluates
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@
 \subsubsection*{Enum and EnumValue descriptors}
 \label{subsec-enum-descriptor}
 
-The \code{EnumDescriptor} contains information about what values a
+The \code{EnumDescriptor} type contains information about what values a
 type defines, while the \code{EnumValueDescriptor} describes an
 individual enum constant of a particular type.  The \verb|$| operator
 can be used to retrieve the value of enum constants contained in the
@@ -1074,6 +1074,12 @@
 \section{Application: Distributed data collection with MapReduce}
 \label{sec:mapreduce}
 
+Protocol Buffers have been used extensively at Google for almost all
+RPC protocols, and for storing structured information in a variety of
+persistent storage systems since 2000 \citep{dean2009designs}.  The
+\pkg{RProtoBuf} package has been in widespread use by hundreds of
+analysts at Google since 2010.
+
 Many large data sets in fields such as particle physics and information
 processing are stored in binned or histogram form in order to reduce
 the data storage requirements \citep{scott2009multivariate}.  In the