coindeskr's Introduction

coindeskr

The goal of coindeskr is to access 'CoinDesk' Bitcoin Price Index API in R

Installation

You can install coindeskr from CRAN with:

install.packages('coindeskr')

Or alternatively, You can install the development version of coindeskr from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("amrrs/coindeskr")

Note

Please note that, coindeskr connects with Coindesk API, hence requires Active Internet Connection for it to work.

Example

Get Current Bitcoin Price:

library(coindeskr)
get_current_price('EUR',F)

#output
> get_current_price('EUR',F)
              time.updated           time.updatedISO           time.updateduk
1 Jan 1, 2018 19:58:00 UTC 2018-01-01T19:58:00+00:00 Jan 1, 2018 at 19:58 GMT
                                                                                                                                                   disclaimer
1 This data was produced from the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (USD). Non-USD currency data converted using hourly conversion rate from openexchangerates.org
  bpi.USD.code bpi.USD.rate  bpi.USD.description bpi.USD.rate_float bpi.EUR.code bpi.EUR.rate bpi.EUR.description
1          USD  13,266.4225 United States Dollar           13266.42          EUR  11,045.6897                Euro
  bpi.EUR.rate_float
1           11045.69

Get Historic Bitcoin Price:

library(coindeskr)
get_historic_price('USD','2017-03-01','2017-03-03')

#output

> get_historic_price('USD','2017-03-01','2017-03-03')
              Price
2017-03-01 1230.016
2017-03-02 1260.924
2017-03-03 1290.786