This is a modification of the original crypto package by jesse vent. It allows to additionally retrieve historic (and possibly dead) coins for research puposes
- Retrieves historical crypto currency data
crypto_history()
- Retrieves list of all active/dead crypto currencies
crypto_list()
- Retrieves all available meta information for a list of coin slugs
crypto_info()
Below are the high level dependencies for the package to install correctly.
R (>= 3.4.0), rvest, xml2
# Ubuntu
sudo apt install libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev
The crypto2 R-package is installable through CRAN or through github.
devtools::install_github("sstoeckl/crypto2")
## Package Usage
```R
library(crypto2)
# List all active coins
coins <- coin_list()
# retrieve historical data for all (the first 10) of them
coin_hist <- crypto_history(coins, limit=10, start_date="20200101")
- Jesse Vent - Package Creator - jessevent
- Sebastian Stöckl - Package Modificator & Maintainer - sstoeckl
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the <license.md> file for details</license.md>
- Thanks to the team at https://coinmarketcap.com for the great work they do
- Thanks to Jesse Vent for providing the original (nut fully research compatible) crypto package