R Observatory: Metrics for BatchGetSymbols version 2.6.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BatchGetSymbols

2.6.4

Downloads and Organizes Financial Data for Multiple Tickers

0packages depend

16.7Kdownloads / year

39.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcelo PerlinFirst published 2016-11-0619 releasesCRAN page ↗

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

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

39.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 372 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 70%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

16.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,080 · ~46/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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31730 days

1.5K90 days

16.7K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Marcelo Perlin

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Marcelo Perlin

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

19 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BatchGetSymbols version 2.6.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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