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joshuaulrich / IBrokers

R API to Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation
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Any roadmap / plan / collaboration? #14

Open ghost opened 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Are there any Road map or plan to move forward IBrokers package?

Are there any way to collaborate with this project?

joshuaulrich commented 6 years ago

Hi Mario,

The situation with this package is that the original author, Jeffrey Ryan, is somewhat restricted from contributing to open-source projects by his current employer. I maintain the package but I don't actively use it. I'm also extremely time-constrained between my responsibilities to my employer, family, and other open-source projects.

The PR you linked to has many issues that prevent me from evaluating the functional changes. It also includes changes that violate the CRAN Repository Policy. That's why it hasn't been merged, and is unlikely to be merged.

Regarding a roadmap: I would love to upgrade the package to use the most up-to-date client version. I also have many private emails that contain feature requests and/or questions about how to use the package. I need to submit these as issues on this tracker, so others can contribute to their resolution. I would also love to have unit tests, possibly using mocks of the TWS API.

Regarding collaboration: I don't know the API extremely well, so I need well-documented patches/pull-requests, preferably with links to the official API documentation and/or implementations in other languages. The changes in the PR should be minimal, and should include commit messages that explain what changed and why. The PR section of the contributing guide I use in my other projects has some things that help make the process easier.

Thanks for reaching out, and I hope my response helps!

vspinu commented 2 years ago

I have just made public rib which is a full featured client based on the official cppclient, thus 100% feature complete by design. I personally think that's the way forward. The disadvantage is that it cannot be released to CRAN because the the tws-api commercial licence and an extra step of downloading the offical code required by the users.