In markushhh/YahooFinance: Provides a Convenient Way to Access the Yahoo Finance Market Data

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YahooFinance (R package)

YahooFinance offers the possibility to access the Yahoo Finance market data in R and supports the tidyverse. This package was ported from Julia's YahooFinance.jl and is available in Python as pyahoofinance.

Installation

```{R, eval = FALSE} install.packages("YahooFinance")

or use github

```{R, eval = FALSE}
devtools::install_github("markushhh/YahooFinance")

Usage

Load the package and retrieve a time series.

library("YahooFinance")

x <- get_symbols("GOOG", "2018-12-13", "2019-06-28")
print(x)

library("YahooFinance")
library("ggplot2") # for plots
library("magrittr") # pipe %>%

x <- get_symbols(c("JNJ", "AAPL", "ACN", "DHR", "DTE"), "2018-12-13", "2019-06-28")

p <- x %>%
  ggplot(aes(Date, Close)) +
  geom_line(aes(col = Symbol), size = 1) +
  theme_bw() + 
  xlab("") +
  ylab("")

```{R, include = FALSE} ggsave("man/figures/plot1.png", plot = p, dpi = 900, width = 16, height = 9)

!["plot"](man/figures/plot1.png)

This project is not associated with nor sponsored by Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! Inc. is the exclusive owner of all trademark and other intellectual property rights in and to the YAHOO! and Y! trademarks (the "Trademarks"), including the stylized YAHOO! and Y! logos. Yahoo! Inc. owns trademark registrations for the Trademarks. ```

markushhh/YahooFinance documentation built on Jan. 24, 2020, 3:19 a.m.