R Observatory: Metrics for alphavantager version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

alphavantager

0.1.3Package record

Lightweight Interface to the Alpha Vantage API

0packages dependsuggested by 1

31Kdownloads / year

4.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matt DanchoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Alpha Vantage has free historical financial information. All you need to do is get a free API key at https://www.alphavantage.co. Then you can use the R interface to retrieve free equity information. Refer to the Alpha Vantage website for more information.

Changes in 0.1.3

av_get() - Improve function details in help manual and ReadMe.
av_fun = "SECTOR" - Fix bug where the same values were being returned.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("business-science/alphavantager")

Development version from business-science/alphavantager. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-alphavantager

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-alphavantager

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-alphavantager

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 299 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

31K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,976 · ~85/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

4.6K90 days

31K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on129 r2u6 autocran1.1K conda_forge147 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

business-science/alphavantager ↗Organization: business-science

72Stars

27Forks

12Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

59Commits

4Commit identities

alpha-vantagefinancial-datahistorical-financial-data

59 commits · Last activity 2023-03-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-10 · 702026-07-07 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/business-science/alphavantager on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing alphavantager adds 118 packages (64 with compiled code, 103 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (10)

dplyr glue httr jsonlite purrr readr stringr (>= 1.2.0)tibble tidyr timetk (>= 0.1.1.1)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidyquant

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Matt Dancho

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Davis Vaughan

Author

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-03-31
0.1.3Latest
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2023-03-31 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-27
requires archived package 'timetk'
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.1
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2019-03-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
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2017-09-03
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-03
Total releases: 4 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 7.4 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("alphavantager")

Format

Dancho, M., & Vaughan, D. (2023). alphavantager: Lightweight Interface to the Alpha Vantage API (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.alphavantager

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

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 alphavantager version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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