alphavantager {alphavantager}

alphavantager: A lightweight R interface to the Alpha Vantage API

Description

A lightweight R interface to the Alpha Vantage API

Details

The alphavantager package provides a lightweight interface to the Alpha Vantage API. Alpha Vantage is a free source for financial data that in many cases is more accurate than Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. Get a free API KEY at https://www.alphavantage.co. Then use the R interface functions av_api_key("YOUR_KEY") to set the API key and the av_get() function to get financial data.