Open markusnam opened 1 year ago
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Reviewer: Shirley Zhang
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Great work on the R package! Here are a few suggestions/comments I have:
Cross-referencing my comments 5 and 6 for your Python package, I liked how the graphs for price_trend_viz
here are outputted directly onto the screen or in a pop-up window (when running on the terminal). If this is something possible to do with the Python package, that would be great.
Similarly to the Python package, it would be nice to include citation information to the Yahoo Finance foreign exchange data, as well as any other sources you may have used to create the functions.
The exception catching inside of your R script is really well done!
I noticed that the x-axis labels are slanted when creating graphs with price_trend_viz()
, but they are horizontal for graphs created with pl_trend_viz()
. Perhaps one format could be chosen for consistency (I would recommend horizontal)?
Furthermore, it looks like the y-axis on graphs created with pl_trend_viz()
are in the wrong scale - the y-axis title is "Percentage", but the scales look like proportions. Perhaps the scale could be changed, to have an output similar to pl_trend_viz()
in the Python package.
Congratulations again on creating a well-designed package, everything ran smoothly from beginning to end and I'm looking forward to seeing how the package will be improved!
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name: fxtrackerR about: Currency conversion, target rate lookup and plotting of rate history and profit/loss percentage history.
Submitting Author Name: Sarah Abdelazim, Lennon Au-Yeung, Crystal Geng, Markus Nam Submitting Author Github Handle: !--author1-->@missarah96<!--end-author1--, !--author2-->@lennonay<!--end-author2--, !--author3-->@THF-d8<!--end-author3--, !--author4-->@markusnam<!--end-author4-- Repository: https://github.com/UBC-MDS/fxtrackerR Version submitted: v0.3.0 Submission type: Standard Editor: Sarah Abdelazim, Lennon Au-Yeung, Crystal Geng, Markus Nam Reviewers: Austin Shih, Andy Wang, Bruce Wu, Shirley Zhang
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Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category? Some of the functions of an R package (priceR) are relevant to foreign exchange. But that is mainly for data retrieval. It does not provide visualizations and lookup function like
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