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Download Historical Currency Exchange Rate

Source: R/currency.R
get_currency.Rd

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 2025-05-05 4252.47
# For multiple dates
get_currency("EUR/USD", from = Sys.Date() - 7, fill = TRUE)
#>         date     rate
#> 1 2025-04-28 1.140914
#> 2 2025-04-29 1.138926
#> 3 2025-04-30 1.132490
#> 4 2025-05-01 1.129650
#> 5 2025-05-02 1.129650
#> 6 2025-05-03 1.129650
#> 7 2025-05-04 1.129650
#> 8 2025-05-05 1.130199
# }