PoloniexR (version 0.0.1)

ReturnChartData: Fetch OHLC and volume timeseries data for a specific market. The caller must specify a date range interval and datafrequency for the requested timeseries.

Description

Fetch OHLC and volume timeseries data for a specific market. The caller must specify a date range interval and datafrequency for the requested timeseries.

Usage

ReturnChartData(theObject, pair = "USDT_BTC",
  from = as.POSIXct("2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC"),
  to = as.POSIXct("2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC"), period = "4H")

Arguments

theObject

The object on which the function should be called.

pair

a length-one character vector - The currencypair for which timeseries information should be fetched.

from

POSIXct - Starting timestamp for daterange interval.

to

POSIXct - Ending timestamp for daterange interval.

period

length-one character vector OR length-one numeric vector - datafrequency for requested timeseries. if is(period, "numeric"): 300 / 900 / 1800 / 7200 / 14400 / 86400 if is(period, "character"): "5M", "15M", "30M", "2H", "4H", "D"

Value

an xts timeseries object. rows - ohcl and volume information for one timestamp. columns - high, low, open, close, volume, quotevolume, weightedaverage.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
Sys.setenv(tz = "UTC")
poloniex.public <- PoloniexPublicAPI()
pair    <- "BTC_NXT"
from    <- as.POSIXct("2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC")
to      <- as.POSIXct("2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC")
period  <- "4H"

chart.data <- ReturnChartData(theObject = poloniex.public,
                              pair      = pair,
                              from      = from,
                              to        = to,
                              period    = period)
# }