Package BatchgetSymbols
was developed back in 2016, with many bad structural choices from my part. Since then, I learned more about R and its ecosystem, resulting in better and more maintainable code. However, it is impossible to keep compatibility with the changes I wanted to make, which is why I decided to develop a new (and fresh) package.
Here are the main differences between yfR
(new) and BatchGetSymbols
(old):
All input arguments are now formatted as "snake_case" and not "dot.case". For example, the argument for the first date of data importation in yfR::yf_get()
is first_date
, and not first.date
, as used in BatchGetSymbols::BatchGetSymbols
.
A new feature called "collection", which allows for easy download of a collection of tickers. For example, you can download price data for all components of the SP500 by simply calling yfR::yf_collection_get("SP500")
.
All function have been renamed for a common API notation. For example, BatchGetSymbols::BatchGetSymbols
is now yfR::yf_get()
. Likewise, the function for fetching collections is yfR::yf_collection_get()
.
The output of yfR::yf_get()
is always a tibble with the price data (and not a list as in BatchGetSymbols::BatchGetSymbols
). If one wants the tibble with a summary of the importing process, it is available as an attribute of the output (see function base::attributes
)
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