R Observatory: Metrics for BatchGetSymbols version 2.6.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BatchGetSymbols

2.6.4Package record

Downloads and Organizes Financial Data for Multiple Tickers

0packages depend

10.7Kdownloads / year

39.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcelo PerlinCRAN page ↗

Makes it easy to download financial data from Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/.

Changes in 2.6.4

improved deprecation message using lifecycle
added message for do_paralell = TRUE (YF added api calls limits) (see issue 27)
improved tests

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BatchGetSymbols", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-batchgetsymbols

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-BatchGetSymbols

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BatchGetSymbols

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.6.4

READMEYes · 372 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.6.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 70%7 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

How to use BatchGetSymbols HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

10.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,789 · ~29/day · ~890/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67830 days

1.7K90 days

10.7K1 year

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Also on96 r2u50 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BatchGetSymbols adds 49 packages (28 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, farver 1.2 MB, viridisLite 1.2 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.4.0rvest dplyr

Imports (15)

stringr curl quantmod XML tidyr lubridate scales furrr purrr future tibble zoo crayon cli lifecycle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Marcelo Perlin

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

Releases (19)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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added 1 export
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-06
Total releases: 19 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 185 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BatchGetSymbols")

Format

Perlin, M. (2022). BatchGetSymbols: Downloads and Organizes Financial Data for Multiple Tickers (Version 2.6.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BatchGetSymbols

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BatchGetSymbols version 2.6.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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