IT'S TIBBLETIME: TIME-AWARE TIBBLES

Written by Davis Vaughan on September 7, 2017

Categories: Code-Tools (/categories/#Code-Tools)

Tags: R-Project (/tags/#R-Project), R (/tags/#R), tibbletime (/tags/#tibbletime)

0 Compartir
Share Tweet

Are you in need of data science services (/services.html)? We can help.

Let's talk (/contact.html)

Matt Dancho
We are very excited to announce the initial release of our newest R package, tibbletime . As evident from the name,
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
tibbletime is built on top of the tibble package (and more generally on top of the tidyverse
answer ) with
any consulting the main
questions. Pleasepurpose
use GitHubof
for software questions.
being able to create time-aware tibbles through a one-time speci cation of an index column (a column containing
timestamp information). There are a ton of useful time functions that we can now use such as time_filter() ,
Type your message
time_summarize() , tmap() , as_period() and time_collapse() . Well walk through the basics in this post.
We're by Drift
If you like what we do, please follow us on social media to stay up on the latest Business Science news, events and
information! As always, we are interested in both expanding our network of data scientists and seeking new clients interested in

applying data science to business and nance. If interested, contact us (http://www.business-science.io/contact.html).

WHY TIBBLETIME?
WHY TIBBLETIME?
The tidyverse has some great packages such as dplyr , tidyr , and purrr that really make data science in R both easier and
fun. However, none of these packages speci cally address time series. Often R users will nd themselves continuously
switching to and from xts to leverage the bene ts of time-based functions and operations such as grouping, applying
functions, summarizing and so on all by time.
Enter tibbletime , a new class that is time-aware. Advantages of this new class are:
The ability to perform compact, time-based subsetting on tibbles.
Quickly summarisize and aggregate results by time period (yearly, monthly, etc).
Change the periodicity of a tibble, meaning from a daily dataset to a monthly or yearly dataset with one function call.
Call functions similar in spirit to the map family from purrr on time based tibbles.
In addition to these new abilities, all functions were designed to support the pipe ( %>% ) and to work seamlessly with
tidyverse packages like dplyr , tidyr and purrr . The end result is a new set of tools that make time series in the
tidyverse much easier and more productive.

LIBRARIES NEEDED
To get started, load tibbletime . You can download from CRAN or from GitHub.

# Install from either CRAN or GH

# install.packages("tibbletime")
# devtools::install_github("business-science/tibbletime")

# Load libraries
library(tibbletime)

CREATING TIME-BASED TIBBLES

To get started with tibbletime , youll use as_tbl_time() to transform your tibble into a tbl_time object. Of course,
youll need a column of dates to use as your index.
Below, well use the FB data set included with the package (Facebook stock prices).

# Facebook stock prices. Comes with the package

data(FB)

We start with a tibble . Notice the speci cation of the index argument as the date column of FB .

# Originally a tibble
FB Matt Dancho
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.

Type your message

We're by Drift

 ## # A tibble: 1,008 x 8
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-01-02 27.44 28.18 27.42 28.00 69846400 28.00
## 2 FB 2013-01-03 27.88 28.47 27.59 27.77 63140600 27.77
## 3 FB 2013-01-04 28.01 28.93 27.83 28.76 72715400 28.76
## 4 FB 2013-01-07 28.69 29.79 28.65 29.42 83781800 29.42
## 5 FB 2013-01-08 29.51 29.60 28.86 29.06 45871300 29.06
## 6 FB 2013-01-09 29.67 30.60 29.49 30.59 104787700 30.59
## 7 FB 2013-01-10 30.60 31.45 30.28 31.30 95316400 31.30
## 8 FB 2013-01-11 31.28 31.96 31.10 31.72 89598000 31.72
## 9 FB 2013-01-14 32.08 32.21 30.62 30.95 98892800 30.95
## 10 FB 2013-01-15 30.64 31.71 29.88 30.10 173242600 30.10
## # ... with 998 more rows

Using as_tbl_time() , we convert FB to class tbl_time . It now has the date stored as an index.

# Convert FB to tbl_time
FB <- as_tbl_time(FB, index = date)

Inspecting the class, we see its now a tbl_time !

# Now at tbl_time!
class(FB)

## [1] "tbl_time" "tbl_df" "tbl" "data.frame"

With the exception of the Index: date in the print statement, the returned object doesnt look much different The
differences are all under the hood, but they come out when we use our tibbletime functions.

# The differences are under the hood!

FB

## # A time tibble: 1,008 x 8

## # Index: date
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-01-02 27.44 28.18 27.42 28.00 69846400 28.00
## 2 FB 2013-01-03 27.88 28.47 27.59 27.77 63140600 27.77
## 3 FB 2013-01-04 28.01 28.93 27.83 28.76 72715400 28.76
## 4 FB 2013-01-07 28.69 29.79 28.65 29.42 83781800 29.42
## 5 FB 2013-01-08 29.51 29.60 28.86 29.06 45871300 29.06
## 6 FB 2013-01-09 29.67 30.60 29.49 30.59 104787700 30.59
## 7 FB 2013-01-10 30.60 31.45 30.28 31.30 95316400 31.30
## 8 FB 2013-01-11 31.28 31.96 31.10 31.72 89598000 31.72
## 9 FB 2013-01-14 32.08 32.21 30.62 30.95 98892800 30.95
## 10 FB 2013-01-15 30.64 31.71 29.88 30.10 173242600 30.10
## # ... with 998 more rows

TIBBLETIME FUNCTIONS Matt Dancho

Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
There are a number of functions that were designed speci cally for tbl_time objects.
answerSome of them
any consulting are: Please use GitHub
questions.
for software questions.
time_filter : Succinctly lter a tbl_time object by date.

time_summarise : Similar to dplyr::summarise() but with the added bene tType your message
of being able to summarise by a time
period such as yearly or monthly. We're by Drift

tmap : The family of tmap_* functions transform a tbl_time input by applying a function to each column at a speci ed
time interval.
 as_period : Convert a tbl_time object from daily to monthly, from minute data to hourly, and more. This allows the
user to easily aggregate data to a less granular level.
time_collapse : When time_collapse() is used, the index of a tbl_time object is altered so that all dates falling inside
the speci edperiod share a common date. This is generally used internally by some of theother functions, but is useful on
its own to perform analyses grouped by some time period.

A FEW EXAMPLES
Lets take tibbletime for a spin so we can try out some of the useful time-based functions.

TIME_FILTER()

Lets look at time_filter() , a neat way to slice your dataset with a compact time formula .

# Filter for rows with dates from March 15th 2013 to December 31st 2015
FB %>%
time_filter(2013-03-15 ~ 2015-12-31)

## # A time tibble: 706 x 8

## # Index: date
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-03-15 27.03 27.06 26.56 26.65 31597400 26.65
## 2 FB 2013-03-18 26.37 26.79 25.78 26.49 26653700 26.49
## 3 FB 2013-03-19 26.53 26.90 26.21 26.55 25254200 26.55
## 4 FB 2013-03-20 26.68 26.69 25.78 25.86 44006500 25.86
## 5 FB 2013-03-21 25.66 26.11 25.56 25.74 24336100 25.74
## 6 FB 2013-03-22 25.80 26.01 25.63 25.73 18456300 25.73
## 7 FB 2013-03-25 25.75 25.80 25.08 25.13 39199000 25.13
## 8 FB 2013-03-26 25.08 25.48 25.03 25.21 26957200 25.21
## 9 FB 2013-03-27 25.00 26.28 24.72 26.09 52297400 26.09
## 10 FB 2013-03-28 26.09 26.17 25.52 25.58 28585700 25.58
## # ... with 696 more rows

As you can see, you specify a date range using from ~ to . A nice shorthand is also available. Heres observations from March
2013 through the end of 2015.

# Only rows with dates from 2013-03-01 to 2015-12-31

FB %>%
time_filter(2013-03 ~ 2015)

## # A time tibble: 716 x 8

## # Index: date
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-03-01 27.05 28.12 26.81 27.78 54064800 27.78
## 2 FB 2013-03-04 27.76 28.06 27.44 27.72 32400700 27.72
## 3 FB 2013-03-05 27.88 28.18 27.21 27.52 40622200 27.52
## 4 FB 2013-03-06 28.10 28.13 27.35 27.45 33532600 27.45 Matt Dancho
## 5 FB 2013-03-07 27.57 28.68 27.47 28.58 74540200 28.58
## 6 FB 2013-03-08 28.43 28.47 27.73 27.96 44198900 27.96 Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
## 7 FB 2013-03-11 28.01 28.64 27.83 28.14 35642100 28.14 answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
## 8 FB 2013-03-12 28.10 28.32 27.60 27.83 27569600 27.83 for software questions.
## 9 FB 2013-03-13 27.62 27.65 26.92 27.08 39619500 27.08
## 10 FB 2013-03-14 27.10 27.43 26.83 27.04 27646400 27.04 Type your message
## # ... with 706 more rows

We're by Drift
Heres observations only in the month of March 2013.

 # Only March 2013 dates using a one sided formula
FB %>%
time_filter(~2013-03)

## # A time tibble: 20 x 8
## # Index: date
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-03-01 27.05 28.12 26.81 27.78 54064800 27.78
## 2 FB 2013-03-04 27.76 28.06 27.44 27.72 32400700 27.72
## 3 FB 2013-03-05 27.88 28.18 27.21 27.52 40622200 27.52
## 4 FB 2013-03-06 28.10 28.13 27.35 27.45 33532600 27.45
## 5 FB 2013-03-07 27.57 28.68 27.47 28.58 74540200 28.58
## 6 FB 2013-03-08 28.43 28.47 27.73 27.96 44198900 27.96
## 7 FB 2013-03-11 28.01 28.64 27.83 28.14 35642100 28.14
## 8 FB 2013-03-12 28.10 28.32 27.60 27.83 27569600 27.83
## 9 FB 2013-03-13 27.62 27.65 26.92 27.08 39619500 27.08
## 10 FB 2013-03-14 27.10 27.43 26.83 27.04 27646400 27.04
## 11 FB 2013-03-15 27.03 27.06 26.56 26.65 31597400 26.65
## 12 FB 2013-03-18 26.37 26.79 25.78 26.49 26653700 26.49
## 13 FB 2013-03-19 26.53 26.90 26.21 26.55 25254200 26.55
## 14 FB 2013-03-20 26.68 26.69 25.78 25.86 44006500 25.86
## 15 FB 2013-03-21 25.66 26.11 25.56 25.74 24336100 25.74
## 16 FB 2013-03-22 25.80 26.01 25.63 25.73 18456300 25.73
## 17 FB 2013-03-25 25.75 25.80 25.08 25.13 39199000 25.13
## 18 FB 2013-03-26 25.08 25.48 25.03 25.21 26957200 25.21
## 19 FB 2013-03-27 25.00 26.28 24.72 26.09 52297400 26.09
## 20 FB 2013-03-28 26.09 26.17 25.52 25.58 28585700 25.58

TIME_SUMMARISE()

Have you ever wanted to calculate yearly averages for your data? Or quarterly summary results for your boss? Now, its easy
with time_summarise() !

Just specify a period , and then calculate your summary results just as you would with dplyr::summarise() , tibbletime
takes care of the rest.

# Get the average mean and standard deviation for each year
FB %>%
time_summarise(
period = "yearly",
adj_mean = mean(adjusted),
adj_sd = sd(adjusted)
)

## # A time tibble: 4 x 3
## # Index: date
## date adj_mean adj_sd
## * <date> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2013-12-31 35.48115 10.621172
## 2 2014-12-31 68.76234 7.502259
## 3 2015-12-31 88.77286 10.211442
## 4 2016-12-30 117.03587 8.899858
Matt Dancho
It even works with groups! Well check out the FANG data set, which contains sample stock prices for FB, AMZN, NFLX and
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
GOOG. answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.

Type your message

We're by Drift

 # Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google stocks
# Another data set in the package
data(FANG)

# Summarise by period and by group

FANG %>%
as_tbl_time(date) %>%
group_by(symbol) %>%
time_summarise(period = "yearly",
adj_min = min(adjusted),
adj_max = max(adjusted),
adj_range = adj_max - adj_min)

## # A time tibble: 16 x 5
## # Index: date
## # Groups: symbol [4]
## symbol date adj_min adj_max adj_range
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 AMZN 2013-12-31 248.23000 404.39002 156.16002
## 2 AMZN 2014-12-31 287.06000 407.04999 119.98999
## 3 AMZN 2015-12-31 286.95001 693.96997 407.01996
## 4 AMZN 2016-12-30 482.07001 844.35999 362.28998
## 5 FB 2013-12-31 22.90000 57.96000 35.06000
## 6 FB 2014-12-31 53.53000 81.45000 27.92000
## 7 FB 2015-12-31 74.05000 109.01000 34.96000
## 8 FB 2016-12-30 94.16000 133.28000 39.12000
## 9 GOOG 2013-12-31 351.08451 559.79618 208.71167
## 10 GOOG 2014-12-31 495.39224 609.47654 114.08430
## 11 GOOG 2015-12-31 492.55224 776.59998 284.04774
## 12 GOOG 2016-12-30 668.26001 813.10999 144.84998
## 13 NFLX 2013-12-31 13.14429 54.36857 41.22429
## 14 NFLX 2014-12-31 44.88714 69.19857 24.31143
## 15 NFLX 2015-12-31 45.54714 130.92999 85.38285
## 16 NFLX 2016-12-30 82.79000 128.35001 45.56001

AS_PERIOD()

In the xts world, there are nice functions to convert your xts object to a different periodicity. Nothing like that existed
natively for tibbles outside of using one of our other packages, tidyquant , to call xts functions indirectly.

With as_period() , that native support now exists and you can convert your time-based tibble to any of the following
periodicities.
"yearly"
"quarterly"
"monthly"
"weekly"
"daily"
"hour"
"minute"
"second"
Matt Dancho
# Change from daily to monthly periodicity
FB %>% Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
as_period("monthly") answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.

Type your message

We're by Drift

 ## # A time tibble: 48 x 8
## # Index: date
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-01-02 27.44 28.18 27.42 28.00 69846400 28.00
## 2 FB 2013-02-01 31.01 31.02 29.63 29.73 85856700 29.73
## 3 FB 2013-03-01 27.05 28.12 26.81 27.78 54064800 27.78
## 4 FB 2013-04-01 25.63 25.89 25.28 25.53 22249300 25.53
## 5 FB 2013-05-01 27.85 27.92 27.31 27.43 64567600 27.43
## 6 FB 2013-06-03 24.27 24.32 23.71 23.85 35733800 23.85
## 7 FB 2013-07-01 24.97 25.06 24.62 24.81 20582200 24.81
## 8 FB 2013-08-01 37.30 38.29 36.92 37.49 106066500 37.49
## 9 FB 2013-09-03 41.84 42.16 41.51 41.87 48774900 41.87
## 10 FB 2013-10-01 49.97 51.03 49.45 50.42 98114000 50.42
## # ... with 38 more rows

By default, the rst date in that period is used as the new date. You can use the last date in that period with the side
argument.

FB %>%
as_period("monthly", side = "end")

## # A time tibble: 48 x 8
## # Index: date
## symbol date open high low close volume adjusted
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-01-31 29.15 31.47 28.74 30.98 190744900 30.98
## 2 FB 2013-02-28 26.84 27.30 26.34 27.25 83027800 27.25
## 3 FB 2013-03-28 26.09 26.17 25.52 25.58 28585700 25.58
## 4 FB 2013-04-30 27.13 27.85 27.01 27.77 36245700 27.77
## 5 FB 2013-05-31 24.63 24.95 24.27 24.35 35925000 24.35
## 6 FB 2013-06-28 24.68 24.98 24.42 24.88 96778900 24.88
## 7 FB 2013-07-31 37.96 38.31 36.33 36.80 154828700 36.80
## 8 FB 2013-08-30 42.02 42.26 41.06 41.29 67735100 41.29
## 9 FB 2013-09-30 50.14 51.60 49.80 50.23 100095000 50.23
## 10 FB 2013-10-31 47.16 52.00 46.50 50.21 248809000 50.21
## # ... with 38 more rows

But remember, you cannot convert to a more granular periodicity. Meaning that if you have daily data, you cannot convert to
hourly data. We cant make up new data points for you!

TMAP()

The family of tmap functions add a time layer onto the existing purrr::map family of functions. They map a function over
every column in the data set (besides groups and the index), but also allow you to map at speci ed intervals (yearly, monthly,
etc). This provides exibility at the cost of requiring the use of the slightly more complex list-columns.

# Setup FANG as tbl_time object

FANG <- FANG %>%
as_tbl_time(date) %>%
group_by(symbol)

# Get the yearly average of every column in FANG, by group

Matt Dancho
mapped_mean <- FANG %>%
tmap(.f = ~mean(.x), period = "yearly")
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
# Result is returned as a list-column because the time period adds
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
# an extra dimension to the mapping for software questions.
mapped_mean
Type your message

We're by Drift

 ## # A time tibble: 16 x 3
## # Index: date
## # Groups: symbol [4]
## symbol date data
## * <chr> <date> <list>
## 1 FB 2013-12-31 <list [6]>
## 2 FB 2014-12-31 <list [6]>
## 3 FB 2015-12-31 <list [6]>
## 4 FB 2016-12-30 <list [6]>
## 5 AMZN 2013-12-31 <list [6]>
## 6 AMZN 2014-12-31 <list [6]>
## 7 AMZN 2015-12-31 <list [6]>
## 8 AMZN 2016-12-30 <list [6]>
## 9 NFLX 2013-12-31 <list [6]>
## 10 NFLX 2014-12-31 <list [6]>
## # ... with 6 more rows

# Access individual elements. Here, the means for Facebook in 2013

mapped_mean$data[[1]]

## $open
## [1] 35.47643
##
## $high
## [1] 36.04504
##
## $low
## [1] 34.93016
##
## $close
## [1] 35.48115
##
## $volume
## [1] 60091994
##
## $adjusted
## [1] 35.48115

A more useful way to do this is to use the tmap_dfc() function, which attempts to convert each of those lists inside the list-
column into a tibble by using dplyr::bind_cols() . Combined with unnest() to unroll each of the tibbles, you can get back a
very clean result.

# Map mean() to each column within the yearly time-based slices of data
mapped_df_means <- FANG %>%
tmap_dfc(~mean(.x), period = "yearly")

# Show the output of tmap_dfc()

mapped_df_means

Matt Dancho
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.

Type your message

We're by Drift

 ## # A time tibble: 16 x 3
## # Index: date
## # Groups: symbol [4]
## symbol date data
## * <chr> <date> <list>
## 1 FB 2013-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 2 FB 2014-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 3 FB 2015-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 4 FB 2016-12-30 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 5 AMZN 2013-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 6 AMZN 2014-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 7 AMZN 2015-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 8 AMZN 2016-12-30 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 9 NFLX 2013-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 10 NFLX 2014-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 11 NFLX 2015-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 12 NFLX 2016-12-30 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 13 GOOG 2013-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 14 GOOG 2014-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 15 GOOG 2015-12-31 <tibble [1 x 6]>
## 16 GOOG 2016-12-30 <tibble [1 x 6]>

# Just add a simple unnest() and our means are in a tbl_time

mapped_df_means %>%
unnest()

## # A time tibble: 16 x 8
## # Index: date
## # Groups: symbol [4]
## symbol date open high low close volume
## * <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 FB 2013-12-31 35.47643 36.04504 34.93016 35.48115 60091994
## 2 FB 2014-12-31 68.76397 69.63952 67.83020 68.76234 47530552
## 3 FB 2015-12-31 88.74941 89.68337 87.76278 88.77286 26955191
## 4 FB 2016-12-30 117.08107 118.09171 115.86587 117.03587 25453798
## 5 AMZN 2013-12-31 297.87512 300.92599 294.65651 298.03159 2967880
## 6 AMZN 2014-12-31 332.79845 336.31754 328.54544 332.55103 4083598
## 7 AMZN 2015-12-31 478.12496 483.19623 472.88214 478.13830 3797368
## 8 AMZN 2016-12-30 699.75659 705.80496 692.64623 699.52313 4115498
## 9 NFLX 2013-12-31 246.74833 251.12960 242.40151 246.90282 27443614
## 10 NFLX 2014-12-31 402.61278 408.01056 396.59623 402.46583 19438156
## 11 NFLX 2015-12-31 325.71254 330.06774 321.55794 326.09663 18570959
## 12 NFLX 2016-12-30 102.00052 103.56952 100.42675 102.03036 12810911
## 13 GOOG 2013-12-31 883.62171 890.14014 877.71396 884.24425 4190346
## 14 GOOG 2014-12-31 697.57502 702.13282 690.68587 696.31786 2487038
## 15 GOOG 2015-12-31 602.51356 607.90291 596.54278 602.46210 2069231
## 16 GOOG 2016-12-30 743.73246 749.42163 737.59791 743.48671 1829845
## # ... with 1 more variables: adjusted <dbl>

FINAL THOUGHTS
Mind you this is only v0.0.1. We have a lot of work to do, but we couldnt wait any longer to share this. Feel free to kick the
Matt Dancho
tires on tibbletime , and let us know your thoughts. Please submit any comments, issues or bug reports to us on GitHub here
(https://github.com/business-science/tibbletime). Enjoy! Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.

Type your message

We're by Drift

ABOUT BUSINESS SCIENCE
We have a full suite of data science services to supercharge your nancial and business performance. How do we do it? Using
our network of data science consultants, we pull together the right team to get custom projects done on time, within budget,
and of the highest quality. Find out more about our data science services (http://www.business-science.io/services.html) or
contact us (http://www.business-science.io/contact.html)!
We are growing! Let us know if you are interested in joining our network of data scientist consultants. If you have expertise
in Marketing Analytics, Data Science for Business, Financial Analytics, or Data Science in general, wed love to talk. Contact
us (http://www.business-science.io/contact.html)!

FOLLOW BUSINESS SCIENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

@bizScienc (https://twitter.com/bizScienc) is on twitter (https://twitter.com/bizScienc)!
Check us out on Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Business-Science-LLC-754699134699054/)!
Check us out on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/business.science)!
Sign up for our insights blog (http://www.business-science.io/) to stay updated!
If you like our software, star our GitHub packages (https://github.com/business-science)!

Are you in need of data science services (/services.html)? We can help. Let's talk (/contact.html)

Matt Dancho
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
Like what you read? Sign up for Business Sciencefor
updates:
software questions.

email address Type your message

Subscribe
We're by Drift

 alphavantager: An R interface to the Free Alpha Vantage
Financial Data API (/code-tools/2017/09/03/alphavantager-0-1-
0.html)

0 Comments Business Science

1 Login

Sort by Best
Recommend Share

Start the discussion

LOG IN WITH
OR SIGN UP WITH DISQUS ?

Name

Be the first to comment.

ALSO ON BUSINESS SCIENCE

Russell 2000 Quantitative Stock Analysis in R: Six Stocks with Tidy Time Series Analysis, Part 1
Amazing, Consistent Growth 2 comments 2 months ago
14 comments 9 months ago Matt Dancho I agree that the numbers need to use downloads by unique
Business Science Robert, glad it worked, and thanks for the kind words. id by day rather than total downloads by day. I'd like to leave this post
If you like this post, I encourage you to sign up for the email subscription. I alone, but
have some

A Data Scientist's Resources tidyquant 0.3.0: ggplot2 Enhancements, Real-Time Data, and More
5 comments a year ago 29 comments 8 months ago
Ricky Rodriguez Thanks for the advice, I will do just that. Davis Vaughan Rick, Thanks for your interest. This is actually an easy
fix. The blog post is a bit outdated in that tq_get() no longer returns a
column of "symbol.x"

Subscribe d Add Disqus to your siteAdd DisqusAdd Privacy

ABOUT US

Business Science is dedicated to helping users and clients apply data science and analytics in a variety of business and nancial
settings. Learn more (/about.html).

CONTACT US Matt Dancho

Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.
Contact us (/contact.html) for data science consulting!

Type your message

FOLLOW US
We're by Drift

(https://www.facebook.com/Business-

Science-

LLC-

754699134699054/)
(https://www.linkedin.com/company/business.science)
(https://twitter.com/bizScienc)

(https://github.com/business-
(http://www.business-
(mailto:info@business-

science)science.io/atom.xml)
science.io)

GET UPDATES

Sign up for the Business Science blog:

email address

Subscribe

Copyright www.business-science.io (http://www.business-science.io) 2017

Matt Dancho
Hello! Welcome to Business Science. We're here to
answer any consulting questions. Please use GitHub
for software questions.

Type your message

We're by Drift