Currency converter — currency_converter • yahoofinancer

Retrieve current conversion rate between two currencies as well as historical rates.

Usage

currency_converter(
  from = "EUR",
  to = "USD",
  start = NULL,
  end = NULL,
  period = "ytd",
  interval = "1d"
)

Arguments

from

Currency to convert from.

to

Currency to convert to.

start

Specific starting date. String or date object in yyyy-mm-dd format.

end

Specific ending date. String or date object in yyyy-mm-dd format.

period

Length of time. Defaults to 'ytd' Valid values are:

'1d'
'5d'
'1mo'
'3mo'
'6mo'
'1y'
'2y'
'5y'
'10y'
'ytd'
'max'

interval

Time between data points. Defaults to '1d' Valid values are:

'1h'
'1d'
'5d'
'1wk'
'1mo'
'3mo'

Value

A data.frame.

Examples

# \donttest{
currency_converter('GBP', 'USD', '2022-07-01', '2022-07-10')
#>                  date     high      low     open    close volume adj_close
#> 1 2022-06-30 23:00:00 1.216205 1.198064 1.215998 1.216086      0  1.216086
#> 2 2022-07-03 23:00:00 1.216515 1.208634 1.210580 1.210273      0  1.210273
#> 3 2022-07-04 23:00:00 1.212606 1.190051 1.211402 1.211446      0  1.211446
#> 4 2022-07-05 23:00:00 1.198638 1.187761 1.194957 1.194914      0  1.194914
#> 5 2022-07-06 23:00:00 1.202183 1.191001 1.191895 1.192321      0  1.192321
#> 6 2022-07-07 23:00:00 1.205531 1.192194 1.203196 1.202805      0  1.202805
currency_converter('GBP', 'USD', period = '1mo', interval = '1d')
#> Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "adj_close", value = c(1.25297582149506, 1.25788068771362, 1.25490987300873, 1.25192487239838, 1.23802220821381, 1.2426837682724, 1.25109469890594, 1.24778521060944, 1.2359870672226, 1.22993671894073, 1.22049450874329, 1.22333145141602, 1.2213442325592, 1.22433483600616, 1.22369062900543, 1.21710026264191, 1.23313677310944, 1.2335399389267, 1.23142087459564, 1.235391497612, 1.24440014362335)): replacement has 21 rows, data has 22
# }