JestonBlu / RobinHood

An R interface for the RobinHood.com no commision investing site

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Getting integer numbers in get_positions_crypto()

emoro opened this issue · comments

commented

Thanks for this amazing library!!!

I run into an issue when calling the function get_positions_crypto. For old versions of R (3.5), the function gives back values of crypto currencies in units of 1. Yes, I wish I had a unit of Bitcoin :)

Anyway, I traced back the error to this part of the code in the api_positions_crypto.R

dta_qty <- data.frame(
    currency_code = dta$currency$code,
    name          = dta$currency$name,
    quantity      = dta$quantity,
    type          = dta$currency$type,
    created_at    = dta$created_at
  )

quantity is a string from the API and in dta_qty is transformed into a factor. After that it is transformed into numeric and there you have the "1".

The problem is obviously the "stringsAsFactors=FALSE". In the newer versions of R (>4.0) this is by default, but in older versions, this might be an issue.

I solve it by calling options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE) before my code, but maybe there is a way to implement this in the library by default.

Thanks for your work

@emoro are you on the most recent package version?

commented

Yes. 1.6. Here is my session info

R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf (32-bit)
Running under: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] RobinHood_1.6

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.4.2       compiler_3.5.2   magrittr_2.0.1   R6_2.5.0        
[5] generics_0.1.0   tools_3.5.2      Rcpp_1.0.6       lubridate_1.7.10
[9] jsonlite_1.7.2  

Here is the call to get my crypto without options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

> get_positions_crypto(RH)
symbol    name quantity market_value mark_price cost_bases gain_loss
1    BTC Bitcoin        1     54946.99   54946.99         10  54936.99

and here is it with options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

> get_positions_crypto(RH)
symbol    name   quantity market_value mark_price cost_bases gain_loss
1    BTC Bitcoin 0.00020641        11.34   54931.71         10      1.34

Thanks, ill incorporate this