Download Exchange Rates

Download exchange rates or metals prices from oanda.

Usage

getFX(Currencies,
      from = Sys.Date() - 179,
      to = Sys.Date(),
      env = parent.frame(),
      verbose = FALSE,
      warning = TRUE,
      auto.assign = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

Currencies: Currency pairs expressed as ‘CUR/CUR’
from: start date expressed in ISO CCYY-MM-DD format
to: end date expressed in ISO CCYY-MM-DD format
env: which environment should they be loaded into
verbose: be verbose
warning: show warnings
auto.assign: use auto.assign
...: additional parameters to be passed to getSymbols.oanda method

Details

A convenience wrapper to getSymbols(x,src='oanda'). See getSymbols and getSymbls.oanda for more detail.

Value

Data will be assigned automatically to the environment specified (the parent environment by default). If auto.assign = FALSE, the data from a single metal request will simply be returned from the function call.

If auto.assign = TRUE is used (the default) a vector of downloaded symbol names will be returned.

See getSymbols and getSymbols.oanda for more detail.

References

Oanda.com https://www.oanda.com

Author

Jeffrey A. Ryan

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

getFX("USD/JPY")

getFX("EUR/USD",from="2005-01-01")
} # }