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Latest updates, fixes and news for the Crypto package

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crypto major release 1.1.2

  • Removal of crypto exchanges call as this no longer works as intended
  • Introduced more elegant error handling

crypto major release 1.1.0

  • Significant changes to entire package due to upgrade to CMC API.
  • Now supports use of the CoinMarketCap professional API.
  • All parallel processing functionality has been removed.
  • All deprecated functions now use their new name, and warnings for old names removed.
  • Better visualisation of progress bar and API key handling introduced.
  • Support for secure API key management through keychain and rstudioapi packages.
  • Enhanced error handling and support for rate limiter, including automatic reattempts.
  • Removed redundant functions no longer required.
  • Added helper functions to assist with dependency management.

crypto minor release 1.0.4

BUG FIX

  • added change to handle rate limiter of 30 calls a minute introduced by CoinMarketCap

crypto minor release 1.0.3

BUG FIX

  • turning off verbose mode from crypto_history() function
  • added additional check in encoding.R to not change locale for existing windows UTF-8 encoding

ENHANCEMENTS

  • functions will now accept a character vector of coin names
  • enhanced coin name handling
  • cleaned up warning messages of deprecation
  • added stop function for coins without data
  • removed printing of empty string

crypto major release 1.0.0

NEW FUNCTIONS

  • daily_market() Retrieve timeseries market data for specific token perfect for visualisation.
  • global_market() Retrieve timeseries global market data for all coins or alt-coins perfect for visualisation.
  • repair_dependencies() Repair all dependant packagess and install any missing ones.
  • replace_encoding() Converts locale encoding to use UTF-8 for better localisation and international support.
  • reset_encoding() Resets locale encoding back to system default.

RENAMED/DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS

The following functions have been renamed and will be deprecated in future versions. Functionality remains the same.

getCoins()      -----> crypto_history()
listCoins()     -----> crypto_list()
getExchanges()  -----> crypto_exchanges()
getPrices()     -----> crypto_prices()
crypto2xts      -----> crypto_xts()

crypto release 0.1.6

NEW FUNCTION crypto2xts()

  • Addition of crypto2xts() function to convert getCoins() into xts object
  • crypto2xts() can also be used to summarise into specified time periods i.e month, week

crypto release 0.1.5

ENHANCEMENT

  • Changed listCoins() url to the new coinmarketcap services
  • Added error handling to foreach call to prevent errors where coins may not exist

crypto release 0.1.4

BUG FIX

  • Fixed rounding issue in getCoins() & getPrices() by introducing replace_na from tidyr package
  • Fixed issue in getPrices() to do with currency conversion

crypto release 0.1.3

NEW FUNCTION getExchanges()

  • Addition of getExchanges() function to retrieve all crypto currencies and their listed exchanges

BUG FIX

  • Fixing defect in getPrices() function by adding return(prices)

crypto release 0.1.2

NEW FUNCTION getPrices()

  • Addition of getPrices() function to retrieve current crypto currency prices

BUG FIX

  • Minor updates to resolve CRAN errors on windows and linux

crypto release 0.1.1

ENHANCEMENT

  • Update to resolve check NOTES on different platforms.
  • Included additional parameters in getCoins() function

crypto release 0.1.0

NEW FUNCTIONS

  • Addition of getCoins() function to retrieve crypto currency prices
  • Addition of listCoins() function to retrieve list of crypto currencies
  • Addition of scraper() helper function used in getCoins()