get_currency: Download Historical Currency Exchange Rate
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get_currency

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Download Historical Currency Exchange Rate

Description

This function lets the user download historical currency exchange rate between two currencies.

Usage

get_currency(
  currency_pair,
  from = Sys.Date() - 99,
  to = Sys.Date(),
  fill = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

`currency_pair`	Character. Which currency exchange do you wish to get the history from? i.e, USD/COP, EUR/USD...
`from`	Date. From date
`to`	Date. To date
`fill`	Boolean. Fill weekends and non-quoted dates with previous values?
`...`	Additional parameters.

Value

data.frame. Result of fetching online data for currency_pair grouped by date.

Examples


# For today (or any one single date)
get_currency("USD/COP", from = Sys.Date())
# For multiple dates
get_currency("EUR/USD", from = Sys.Date() - 7, fill = TRUE)

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