Introducing budgetr

Derek Damron

September 13, 2016

What is budgetr?

 

An R package for easy budgeting

What do you mean “easy”?

 

  • Easy to understand
  • Easy to use

What is a budget?

 

What is a budget?

 

A collection of financial stuff
over a certain period of time.

Financial stuff

Defining items

 

 

create_item( name = "Paycheck"
           , amount = 1000
           , day = 1
           , recurring = TRUE
           )

What is a budget?

 

A collection of financial stuff
over a certain period of time.

A Collection

Defining schedules

 

 

create_schedule( paycheck
               , rent
               , internet
               , car
               , groceries
               )

What is a budget?

 

A collection of financial stuff
over a certain period of time.

Over time

Defining budgets

 

 

create_budget( schedule
             , start = as.Date("2016-09-13")
             , end = as.Date("2016-12-13")
             , initial = 1000
             )

Visualizing

Visualizing

Quick start hints

 

  • get_items() for grabbing all of your items in the current environment
  • update_* functions to quickly update your items,
    schedules, and budgets

Future work

 

  • Better visualizations (e.g. interactive graphs)
  • More extendible items (e.g. “weekly” items)
  • Any ideas you have ☺

Finding out more

 

Questions?