cryptoQuotes: A streamlined access to OHLC-V market data and sentiment indicators in R

ℹ️ Overview

The cryptoQuotes-package is a high-level API-client to get current, and historical, cryptocurrency OHLC-V market and sentiment data in R, without using web-crawlers or API keys. This R-package uses xts and zoo under the hood and are compatible with quantmod and TTR out of the box.

Supported exchanges and markets

All supported exchanges and markets are listed in the table below, alongside the available range of intervals available from the respective exchanges,

Supported exchanges, markets and intervals.

Exchange	Spot	Futures	Available Intervals	Smallest Interval	Biggest Interval
Binance	✔	✔	16	1 second(s)	1 month(s)
Bitmart	✔	✔	13	1 minute(s)	1 week(s)
Bybit	✔	✔	13	1 minute(s)	1 month(s)
Kraken	✔	✔	10	1 minute(s)	2 week(s)
Kucoin	✔	✔	13	1 minute(s)	1 week(s)

ℹ️ Basic Usage

OHLC-V Market Data

Get USDT denominated Bitcoin spot market price from Binance with 30m-intervals using the get_quote()-function,

## BTC OHLC prices
## from Binance spot market
## in 30 minute intervals
BTC <- cryptoQuotes::get_quote(
  ticker   = 'BTCUSDT',
  source   = 'binance',
  futures  = FALSE,
  interval = '30m',
  from     = Sys.Date() - 1 
)

Bitcoin (BTC) OHLC-prices

index	open	high	low	close	volume
2024-05-18 08:30:00	66753.62	66963.86	66730	66920.03	350.87501
2024-05-18 09:00:00	66920.03	67240.69	66839.12	67190.01	420.24327
2024-05-18 09:30:00	67190	67190.01	66829	66887	448.78951
2024-05-18 10:00:00	66887.01	67085.19	66840	67010	281.41346
2024-05-18 10:30:00	67009.99	67037.45	66923.87	67027.59	178.27045
2024-05-18 11:00:00	67027.59	67119.04	66999.99	67018.19	369.53234

Charting OHLC-V

The BTC-object can be charted using the chart()-function,

## Chart BTC
## using klines, SMA, 
## MACD and Bollinger Bands
cryptoQuotes::chart(
  ticker = BTC,
  main   = cryptoQuotes::kline(),
  sub    = list(
    cryptoQuotes::volume(),
    cryptoQuotes::macd()
  ),
  indicator = list(
    cryptoQuotes::sma(n = 7),
    cryptoQuotes::sma(n = 14),
    cryptoQuotes::sma(n = 21),
    cryptoQuotes::bollinger_bands()
  )
)

ℹ️ Installation

Stable version

# install from CRAN
install.packages(
  pkgs = 'cryptoQuotes',
  dependencies = TRUE
)

Development version

# install from github
devtools::install_github(
  repo = 'https://github.com/serkor1/cryptoQuotes/',
  ref  = 'development'
)

⚠️ Disclaimer

This library is still considered experimental but no breaking changes will be made on functions labelled as stable without appropriate action; please refer to the release notes, or submit an issue if that promise is broken.

ℹ️ Code of Conduct

Please note that the cryptoQuotes project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.