Download Historical Currency Exchange Rate

This function lets the user download historical currency exchange rate between two currencies.

Usage

get_currency(
  currency_pair,
  from = Sys.Date() - 99,
  to = Sys.Date(),
  fill = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

currency_pair: Character. Which currency exchange do you wish to get the history from? i.e, USD/COP, EUR/USD...
from: Date. From date
to: Date. To date
fill: Boolean. Fill weekends and non-quoted dates with previous values?
...: Additional parameters.

Value

data.frame. Result of fetching online data for currency_pair grouped by date.

Examples

# \donttest{
# For today (or any one single date)
get_currency("USD/COP", from = Sys.Date())
#>         date    rate
#> 1 2025-11-26 3811.94
# For multiple dates
get_currency("EUR/USD", from = Sys.Date() - 7, fill = TRUE)
#>         date     rate
#> 1 2025-11-19 1.158104
#> 2 2025-11-20 1.154068
#> 3 2025-11-21 1.153536
#> 4 2025-11-22 1.153536
#> 5 2025-11-23 1.153536
#> 6 2025-11-24 1.150788
#> 7 2025-11-25 1.152074
#> 8 2025-11-26 1.157274
# }