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Ethereum Price Index

This app show the actual Ethereum price and the chart of all Ethereum data. In addition it is possibile to run a forecast with the choosen number of observation.

Ethereum

Ethereum is an open source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. Ether is the cryptocurrency generated by the Ethereum platform as a reward to mining nodes for computations performed and is the only currency accepted in the payment of transaction fees. Ethereum was proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer.

Aim of this project

The purpose of this package is to show the stock exchange index of the cryptocurrency Ether. It is possible to view: * the real-time value of the index; * it can be updated by a button; * the chart (updated daily) of the trend of the index; * the chart (updated daily) of the trend of the index with a Moving Average; * the forecast of the future trend of the index; * in this case it is also possible to choose the number of observations on which to base the forecast.

Data sources

• Quanld - The premier source for financial, economic, and alternative datasets, serving investment professionals. It is used for getting the daily data for all the charts.
• ethereumprice - A website where we get the live value of Ethere with some web scraping.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Installing and run

Install the R package

devtools::install_github('unimi-dse/fdaa5907')

Load the package

require(ethereum)

For getting the data is necessary to set a API key for the Quandl libray. For do it you can go on Quanld website and create a FREE account. If you simply want to test the app you can use the following key:

"-GNJxjPntak8s-AxpM5o"

The key must be setted with the function setKeyAPI() in this way:

setKeyAPI("-GNJxjPntak8s-AxpM5o")

Now, it is possible to run a Graphical User Interface with the command:

 GUI()

Documentation and Test

It's possible to see the documentation (how it works) of the developed functions, by typing:

?getEth()
?calculateRange()
?getPricePerc()
?setKeyAPI()
?GUI()

Built With

• Shiny - Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R.

Authors

• Tommaso Pessina - Initial work - (https://github.com/tommasopessina)

unimi-dse/fdaa5907 documentation built on Feb. 9, 2020, 6:07 p.m.