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Version 2.6.4 (2022-05-01)

• improved deprecation message using lifecycle
• added message for do_paralell = TRUE (YF added api calls limits) (see issue 27)
• improved tests

Version 2.6.3 (2022-03-30)

• Added deprecation message

Version 2.6.2 (2022-03-08)

• Added message for ibov composition

Version 2.6.1 (2020-11-27)

• Fixed issue issue 21, which only happened in Windows.
• changed default cache dir for ticker grabbing function

Version 2.6 (2020-11-22)

• The cache system is now session-persistent with cache.dir = file.path(tempdir(), 'BGS_Cache'). This solves the problem with mismatching price series from cached data between splits or dividends. A new warning is set whenever the user uses cache.dir different from temp.dir()
• removed dplyr grouping message

Version 2.5.9 (2020-11-17)

• removed rownames from output (issue 18)
• Made sure that, on “weekly” mode, the first day of week is a monday (issue 19)
• Added input how.to.aggregate that will allow the user to aggregate de data by the last or first prices of intervals (issue 19)

Version 2.5.8 (2020-05-08)

• Fixed bug in NA price

Version 2.5.7 (2020-04-21)

• Fixed bug in sp500 fct
• Fixed bug with repeated rows of data (git issue 16)

Version 2.5.6 (2020-02-25)

• Improved startup message for 2020 book (link to online version)

Version 2.5.5 (2019-02-17)

• Fixed bug in cleaning function
• Added startup message for 2020 book

Version 2.5.4 (2019-10-12)

• Fixed small bug in vignette

Version 2.5.3 (2019-07-05)

• Added option for keeping function quiet (be.quiet)
• Once again fixed function for grabbing stocks from the SP500 index

Version 2.5.2 (2019-04-24)

• Fixed bug in stock index grabbing functions

Version 2.5.1 (2019-04-13)

• New function for FTSE100 Stocks (thanks samprohaska)

Version 2.5 (2019-04-13)

• Implemented option for parallel computations with BatchGetSymbols
• Added caching system for index grabing functions (SP500 and IBOV)

Version 2.4 (2019-03-23)

• Fixed bug in function that downloads SP500 data.

Version 2.3 (2018-11-25)

• User can now choose to return a full balanced price dataset by filling NA values or volume == 0 for their closest prices.
• Fixed small bug in cache system when an empty dataframe is returned
• Fixed bug in function that downloads ibovespa’s composition

Version 2.2 (2018-10-10)

• Users can now set frequency of data (daily, weekly, monthly or yearly)

Version 2.1 (2018-05-08)

Small update:

• added startup message with book link

Version 2.0 (2018-01-22)

Major update:

• New fct GetIBovStocks for downloading current composition of Ibovespa
• New fct for changing to wide format
• Now the output includes returns and not only prices
• removed annoying startup message
• implemented clever caching system for financial data
• simplified input dates (no need for Date class any more)

Version 1.2 (2017-06-26)

• Fixed issue with GetSP500(). The wikipedia page changed its code..

Version 1.1 (2016-12-05)

• Fixed CRAN NOTE (stats not used in imports)
• Fixed typos and improved vignette
• Couple of fixes in documentation
• Added citation message on startup

Version 1.0 (2016-11-06)

• First commit

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