igfetchr

0.1.0

Access the 'IG Trading REST API'

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1.6Kdownloads / year

48.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Saw SimeonFirst published 2025-11-211 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions to fetch market data, search historical prices, execute trades, and get account details from the 'IG Trading REST API' https://labs.ig.com. Returns tidy tibbles for easy analysis. Trading contracts for difference (CFDs), options and spread bets carries a high risk of losing money. This package is not financial or trading advice.

Install

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

install.packages("igfetchr", 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("sawsimeon/igfetchr")

Development version from sawsimeon/igfetchr. 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-igfetchr

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-igfetchr

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-igfetchr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

48.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
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WARNING2026-06-08
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 160 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sawsimeon/igfetchr

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Dependencies

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9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

Imports (4)

httr jsonlite tibble purrr

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Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown lubridate httptest

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Saw Simeon

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Saw Simeon

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-21
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 26 KB
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