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joshuaulrich / IBrokers

R API to Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation
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Add links to alternative R clients to the Readme #33

Closed vspinu closed 2 years ago

vspinu commented 2 years ago

Hi @joshuaulrich!

Would really appreciate if you could add these links to alternative clients to make them more discoverable.

Thanks!

joshuaulrich commented 2 years ago

There is not much incentive for me to link to your package when you describe this package in negative terms.

It's not correct to say that IBrokers "works only with very old version of TWS API". When you connect to the API, you tell it which version you're using. So the current TWS API is always backward compatible.

Also, this package is "IBrokers", not "RBrokers".

What do you think of this description: "Original TWS client written entirely in R"

vspinu commented 2 years ago

Sorry. I didn't realize it was "negative". Just factual :thinking:. I was under an impression that development of IBrokers is stalled due to the usage of the old protocol (versions < 100). Thus new features would be impossible to add without a major rewrite.

I have corrected the description as you proposed. It's much nicer indeed.

joshuaulrich commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the update! Sorry this took so long to merge. I've been busy with work, kids, and house projects...