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Usecase

Serkan Korkmaz edited this page Mar 25, 2024 · 25 revisions

Cryptocurrency Market Data in R

The main usecase of the cryptoQuotes-package is the available get_-functions. Below is a basic example of retrieving the daily price of Bitcoin.

All the returned objects are xts-objects, with the following format,

index open high low close volume
2024-03-20 01:00:00 61937.41 68100.00 60775.00 67840.51 90420.59
2024-03-21 01:00:00 67840.51 68240.47 64529.01 65501.27 53357.48
2024-03-22 01:00:00 65501.28 66649.62 62260.00 63796.64 51482.38
2024-03-23 01:00:00 63796.64 65999.00 63000.00 63990.01 26410.11
2024-03-24 01:00:00 63990.02 67628.69 63772.29 67209.99 31395.78
2024-03-25 01:00:00 67210.00 67740.00 66385.06 67134.01 15841.21

Charting

The returned market data can be charted and examined as follows,

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