Today, we will show how you can easily get the Cryptocurrency Prices using R. We will work with the crypto package.

You can install the crypto package from GitHub:

# Installing via Github
devtools::install_github("jessevent/crypto")
 

How to get the list of the Cryptocurrencies

library(crypto)
library(tidyverse)
list_coins<-crypto_list()

# Print 10 of them
list_coins%>%head(10)%>%select(symbol, name)
 

   symbol name             
 1 BTC    Bitcoin     
 2 ETH    Ethereum    
 3 XRP    XRP         
 4 USDT   Tether      
 5 BCH    Bitcoin Cash
 6 BSV    Bitcoin SV  
 7 LTC    Litecoin    
 8 ADA    Cardano     
 9 LINK   Chainlink   
10 BNB    Binance Coin
 

How to get the Cryptocurrency Prices

Let’s say that I am interested in BTC, XRP, BCH and LTC and I want to get their daily values from 2020-01-01 onwards.

btc<-crypto_history(coin = 'BTC', start_date = "20200101")
xrp<-crypto_history(coin = 'XRP', start_date = "20200101")
bch<-crypto_history(coin = 'BCH', start_date = "20200101")
ltc<-crypto_history(coin = 'LTC', start_date = "20200101")

df<-rbind(btc,xrp,bch,ltc)

df%>%head()