Latest updates, fixes and news for the Crypto package

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crypto major release 1.1.0

• Significant changes to entire package due to upgrade to CMC API.
• Now supports use of the CoinMarketCap professional API.
• All parallel processing functionality has been removed.
• All deprecated functions now use their new name, and warnings for old names removed.
• Better visualisation of progress bar and API key handling introduced.
• Support for secure API key management through keychain and rstudioapi packages.
• Enhanced error handling and support for rate limiter, including automatic reattempts.
• Removed redundant functions no longer required.
• Added helper functions to assist with dependency management.

crypto minor release 1.0.4

BUG FIX

• added change to handle rate limiter of 30 calls a minute introduced by CoinMarketCap

crypto minor release 1.0.3

BUG FIX

• turning off verbose mode from crypto_history() function
• added additional check in encoding.R to not change locale for existing windows UTF-8 encoding

ENHANCEMENTS

• functions will now accept a character vector of coin names
• enhanced coin name handling
• cleaned up warning messages of deprecation
• added stop function for coins without data
• removed printing of empty string ### crypto major release 1.0.0 #### NEW FUNCTIONS
• daily_market() Retrieve timeseries market data for specific token perfect for visualisation.
• global_market() Retrieve timeseries global market data for all coins or alt-coins perfect for visualisation.
• repair_dependencies() Repair all dependant packagess and install any missing ones.
• replace_encoding() Converts locale encoding to use UTF-8 for better localisation and international support.
• reset_encoding() Resets locale encoding back to system default.

RENAMED/DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS

The following functions have been renamed and will be deprecated in future versions. Functionality remains the same.

getCoins()      -----> crypto_history()
listCoins()     -----> crypto_list()
getExchanges()  -----> crypto_exchanges()
getPrices()     -----> crypto_prices()
crypto2xts      -----> crypto_xts()

crypto release 0.1.6

NEW FUNCTION crypto2xts()

• Addition of crypto2xts() function to convert getCoins() into xts object
• crypto2xts() can also be used to summarise into specified time periods i.e month, week

crypto release 0.1.5

ENHANCEMENT

• Changed listCoins() url to the new coinmarketcap services
• Added error handling to foreach call to prevent errors where coins may not exist

crypto release 0.1.4

BUG FIX

• Fixed rounding issue in getCoins() & getPrices() by introducing replace_na from tidyr package
• Fixed issue in getPrices() to do with currency conversion

crypto release 0.1.3

NEW FUNCTION getExchanges()

• Addition of getExchanges() function to retrieve all crypto currencies and their listed exchanges

BUG FIX

• Fixing defect in getPrices() function by adding return(prices)

crypto release 0.1.2

NEW FUNCTION getPrices()

• Addition of getPrices() function to retrieve current crypto currency prices

BUG FIX

• Minor updates to resolve CRAN errors on windows and linux

crypto release 0.1.1

ENHANCEMENT

• Update to resolve check NOTES on different platforms.
• Included additional parameters in getCoins() function

crypto release 0.1.0

NEW FUNCTIONS

• Addition of getCoins() function to retrieve crypto currency prices
• Addition of listCoins() function to retrieve list of crypto currencies
• Addition of scraper() helper function used in getCoins()