Package BatchgetSymbols was developed back in 2016, with
many bad structural choices from my part. Since then, I learned more
about R and its ecosystem, resulting in better and more maintainable
code. However, it is impossible to keep compatibility with the changes I
wanted to make, which is why I decided to develop a new (and fresh)
package.
Here are the main differences between yfR (new) and
BatchGetSymbols (old):
All input arguments are now formatted as “snake_case” and not
“dot.case”. For example, the argument for the first date of data
importation in yfR::yf_get() is first_date,
and not first.date, as used in
BatchGetSymbols::BatchGetSymbols.
A new feature called “collection”, which allows for easy download
of a collection of tickers. For example, you can download price data for
all components of the SP500 by simply calling
yfR::yf_collection_get("SP500").
All function have been renamed for a common API notation. For
example, BatchGetSymbols::BatchGetSymbols is now
yfR::yf_get(). Likewise, the function for fetching
collections is yfR::yf_collection_get().
The output of yfR::yf_get() is always a tibble with
the price data (and not a list as in
BatchGetSymbols::BatchGetSymbols). If one wants the tibble
with a summary of the importing process, it is available as an attribute
of the output (see function base::attributes)
New and prettier status messages using package
cli