getFX: Download Exchange Rates

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Download Exchange Rates

Description

Download exchange rates or metals prices from oanda.

Usage

getFX(Currencies,
      from = Sys.Date() - 179,
      to = Sys.Date(),
      env = parent.frame(),
      verbose = FALSE,
      warning = TRUE,
      auto.assign = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

Currencies	Currency pairs expressed as ‘CUR/CUR’
from	start date expressed in ISO CCYY-MM-DD format
to	end date expressed in ISO CCYY-MM-DD format
env	which environment should they be loaded into
verbose	be verbose
warning	show warnings
auto.assign	use auto.assign
...	additional parameters to be passed to getSymbols.oanda method

Details

A convenience wrapper to getSymbols(x,src='oanda'). See getSymbols and getSymbls.oanda for more detail.

Value

Data will be assigned automatically to the environment specified (the parent environment by default). If auto.assign = FALSE, the data from a single metal request will simply be returned from the function call.

If auto.assign = TRUE is used (the default) a vector of downloaded symbol names will be returned.

See getSymbols and getSymbols.oanda for more detail.

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Ryan

References

Oanda.com https://www.oanda.com

See Also

getSymbols, getSymbols.oanda

Examples

## Not run: 

getFX("USD/JPY")

getFX("EUR/USD",from="2005-01-01")

## End(Not run)

quantmod documentation built on Aug. 22, 2023, 9:09 a.m.