Usecase

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.

## 1) get BTC
## on the daily
BTC <- cryptoQuotes::get_quote(
  ticker  = "BTCUSDT",
  source  = "binance",
  futures = FALSE,
  from    = Sys.Date() - 100
)

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

index	open	high	low	close	volume
2024-04-13 02:00:00	67116.52	67929.00	60660.57	63924.51	71395.220
2024-04-14 02:00:00	63924.52	65840.00	62134.00	65661.84	61599.178
2024-04-15 02:00:00	65661.85	66867.07	62274.40	63419.99	52389.531
2024-04-16 02:00:00	63419.99	64365.00	61600.00	63793.39	53435.293
2024-04-17 02:00:00	63793.40	64499.00	59678.16	61277.37	50610.545
2024-04-18 02:00:00	61277.38	62229.90	60939.92	61167.99	8338.567

Charting

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

cryptoQuotes::chart(
  ticker = BTC,
  main = cryptoQuotes::kline(),
  sub = list(
    cryptoQuotes::volume(),
    cryptoQuotes::macd()
  )
)