Do you have a working example for R

[coinapi]

Do you have a working example for R

[AndrewManHayChiu]

@mubashirqasim

Give the following a try:

Initialise

library(httr)
library(jsonline)

Setup GET request to coinapi

base     <- "https://rest.coinapi.io/"
endpoint <- "/v1/exchangerate/BTC?apikey="  # note the request is for aseets against BTC
api_key  <- "[your key]" 

Create query string

call <- paste0(base, endpoint, api_key)

Retrieve data via GET call

get_prices <- GET(call)

Returns class "response"

class(get_prices)

Process into a data table

get_prices_text <- content(get_prices, "text")  # Convert to "character"
get_prices_json <- fromJSON(get_prices_text, flatten = TRUE) # Flatten into list

List contains two objects:

1 - asset_id_base
2 - rates

names(get_prices_json)

get_prices_json$asset_id_base
head(get_prices_json$rates)

[Svisstack]

I moved this response to the readme as the example of the usage of API form the R language. Thanks @AndrewManHayChiu for the effort

[Ramshreyas]

@Svisstack I've made an R package for the REST API: https://github.com/Ramshreyas/rcoinapi - please use and share as you see fit. Feedback welcome to improve it!