Currency Converter

Retrieve current and historical exchange rates between two currencies via the Yahoo Finance chart API.

Usage

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

Arguments

from

ISO 4217 three-letter currency code to convert from (e.g., "EUR", "GBP"). Defaults to "EUR".

to

ISO 4217 three-letter currency code to convert to (e.g., "USD", "JPY"). Defaults to "USD".

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:

• '1d'

• '5d'

• '1mo'

• '3mo'

• '6mo'

• '1y'

• '2y'

• '5y'

• '10y'

• 'ytd'

• 'max'

interval

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

• '1h'

• '1d'

• '5d'

• '1wk'

• '1mo'

• '3mo'

Value

A data.frame with columns: date (POSIXct), high, low, open, close, volume (all numeric), and conditionally adj_close (numeric, present for daily and longer intervals). Rows with NA volume are excluded. Returns invisible(NULL) on network failure.

See also

Other currency: get_currencies()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
currency_converter('GBP', 'USD', '2022-07-01', '2022-07-10')
currency_converter('GBP', 'USD', period = '1mo', interval = '1d')
} # }