The goal of coindeskr is to access ‘CoinDesk’ Bitcoin Price Index API in R
You can install coindeskr from github with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("amrrs/coindeskr")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 11045.69Get 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 1290.786Powered by Coindesk