On 04/22/2016 11:03 AM, Lifepillar wrote:
>
> I don't know whether this might fit what you're looking after, but the
> approach I have been using for a while (and which I am satisfied with) is
> to let Ledger output the data in tabular format, then feed the output to
> some plotting program. With some scripting, this is easily automated.
> I use R, but you may as well use whatever app able to read CSV (including
> {Libre|Open}Office). As an example, my Ledger bundle for TextMate is able
> to plot charts if R is installed
> (https://github.com/lifepillar/Ledger.tmbundle).
> TextMate is OS X only, though.
>
> To export the data in a way that I may draw nearly any imaginable plot, I
> use three formats. One for register/periodic reports, with these fields:
>
> date; year; month; month_num; wday; wday_num; week; mday; amount;
> total; payee; account
>
> which is generated with this option (one line):
>
> --format
> '%(format_date(date,\"%Y-%m-%d;%Y;%b;%m;%a;%u;%W;%d\"));%(quantity(scrub(display_amount)));%(quantity(scrub(display_total)));%(payee);%(display_account)\n'
>
>
> One for balance reports, with these fields:
>
> balance; uncleared; account; partial_account
>
> --format '%(quantity(scrub(get_at(display_total,
> 0))));%(quantity(scrub(get_at(display_total,
> 1))));%(account);%(partial_account)\n%/'
>
> Finally, one for budget reports, with these fields:
>
> actual; budgeted; remaining; used; account; partial_account
>
> --format '%(quantity(scrub(get_at(display_total,
> 0))));%(get_at(display_total, 1) ?
> quantity(-scrub(get_at(display_total, 1))) :
> 0.0);%(get_at(display_total, 1) ? (get_at(display_total, 0) ?
> quantity(-scrub(get_at(display_total, 1) + get_at(display_total, 0)))
> : quantity(-scrub(get_at(display_total, 1)))) :
> quantity(-scrub(get_at(display_total, 0))));%(get_at(display_total, 1)
> ? quantity(100% * (get_at(display_total, 0) ?
> scrub(get_at(display_total, 0)) : 0.0) / -scrub(get_at(display_total,
> 1))) : "na");%(account);%(partial_account)\n%/'
>
> They are horribly complicated, but they get the job done beautifully.
> I do not type them all the time, of course: I use a Vim command that
> prints a report in any of those formats.
>
> Enjoy,
> Life
>
>
Thanks. I don't want commands running through CSV files. I want an
interactive tool that has things I can poke at, which will live-update
the graphs, show me legends, and allow me to interact with the graphs.
Since I could not find any, I HAD started writing one just two weeks ago
(my program uses pyplot provisionally).
I have ceased development of that program, and pretty much everything
until ledger's Python bindings stop making the program segfault.
So I guess I will have to wait for a very long time, and possibly
migrate to another accounting tool that I can commit to using.
--
Rudd-O
http://rudd-o.com/
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