JOSS review

[cole-brokamp]

Hello! I am listing two smaller review points here for my JOSS review (openjournals/joss-reviews#3544)

• consider combining LICENSE.md and LICENSE into one file to prevent confusion
• please add a section title called "Statement of Need"; I believe this is sufficiently described, but just need to organize it into a section with this specific title

[jessecambon]

Hi @cole-brokamp, thanks. To your second bullet, the middle section "Challenges in Geocoding" is the statement of need. I can just change that section title to be "Statement of Need" if that would work for you.

To your first bullet, while I agree in principle, the CRAN regulations prevent this:

Complete and ship as file LICENSE the following 2
lines (only)

YEAR:
COPYRIGHT HOLDER:

and specify as

License: MIT + file LICENSE
-https://cran.r-project.org/web/licenses/MIT

You can see a more extended discussion on this topic here: tidyverse/tidyr#262.

[dieghernan]

Very common problem on JOSS reviews due to CRAN policy, see also kadyb/rgugik#61

[cole-brokamp]

Thanks for the information. I don't think there is anything that can be done about the LICENSE files. I think that renaming the middle section as Statement of Need would work to satisfy JOSS requirements.

[jessecambon]

Sounds good, I just made that change:

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