hledger-mode VS expenses

This isn't technically Emacs specific, but you could look into Plain Text Accounting. I use ledger combined with ledger-mode on Emacs, however there is a more up-to-date one called hledger, with hledger-mode. You can have these setup in an org file and export into a plain text file if you would like, but personally I recommend just using one of those modes and editing a ledger file directly.

Also it is worth noting https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-mode .

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "[https://melpa.org/packages/elpa-packages.eld](https://melpa.org/packages/elpa-packages.eld)" "Not found") signal(file-error ("[https://melpa.org/packages/elpa-packages.eld](https://melpa.org/packages/elpa-packages.eld)" "Not found")) package--with-response-buffer-1("[https://melpa.org/packages/](https://melpa.org/packages/)" #f(compiled-function () #) :file "elpa-packages.eld" :async nil :error-function #f(compiled-function () #) :noerror nil) package--download-one-archive(("melpa" . "[https://melpa.org/packages/](https://melpa.org/packages/)") "elpa-packages.eld" nil) package-vc--download-and-read-archives() package-vc--archives-initialize() package-vc-install("[https://github.com/md-arif-shaikh/expenses](https://github.com/md-arif-shaikh/expenses)" expenses nil nil) vc-use-package--install(:fetcher "[https://github.com/](https://github.com/)" :repo "md-arif-shaikh/expenses" :name expenses) apply(vc-use-package--install (:fetcher "[https://github.com/](https://github.com/)" :repo "md-arif-shaikh/expenses" :name expenses)) (if (package-installed-p 'expenses) nil (apply #'vc-use-package--install '(:fetcher "[https://github.com/](https://github.com/)" :repo "md-arif-shaikh/expenses" :name expenses)))

Many are suggesting using org-babel but that is exactly what I do not want. I want a library that could be used directly within an emacs-lisp code. This would make it easy to write Emacs packages that work with data. For example, in the package expenses that I wrote, I want to be able to plot and analyse expenses for different months/categories. Now, this could be done using some library from other languages but it would be much easier and nicer if there is a way to do this using emacs-lisp only.

As mentioned in another comment, if you are looking for something which is fully integrated in Emacs and not too complicated, checkout https://github.com/md-arif-shaikh/expenses.