Removing Financial Toolbox dependency

[toshiakit]

Hello, plotPolarAnimation.m requires Financial Toolbox, but I think you can remove this dependency fairly easily.

Line 81: angle = daysIntoYear * (2*pi/yeardays(date.Year)); can be rewritten as follows:

numYearDays = days(datetime(date.Year+1,1,1) - datetime(date.Year,1,1));
angle = daysIntoYear * (2*pi/numYearDays);

Line 85: prev_angle = prev_daysIntoYear * (2*pi/yeardays(prev_date.Year)); can be changed to

numYearDays = days(datetime(prev_date.Year+1,1,1) - datetime(prev_date.Year,1,1));
prev_angle = prev_daysIntoYear * (2*pi/numYearDays);

With those changes, I was able to run your Live Script without error, even though I don't have Financial Toolbox.

[davidwilby]

Hi @toshiakit thanks for your input, I really appreciate the effort.

For this particular example, having a toolbox as a dependency is intentional as this will form part of a future demonstration of putting together reproducible projects, with dependencies being an important component.

Though arguably, your solution is another route to reproducibility by removing a dependency that is only minimally used. I'll bear this in mind, thanks!