Other 'R packages' retrieves data from Yahoo Finance and
have the same source as 'financr', e.g., 'yahoofinancer',
'quantmod'.
Similarly for packages that depends on them, e.g., 'yfr',
and 'stocks'
that both depends on 'quantmod'.
'financr'dependencies are kept low. Therefore other packages sometimes offers more advanced methods, e.g.,'quantmod'offers financial data-analysis oriented functions and time series data visualization methods,'yfr'handle large-scale downloads.
'financr'only retrieves data from Yahoo Finance, without assumptions about the visualizations or analyses performed with these financial data.
Regarding the historical data fetched from Yahoo Finance API,
financr::get_historic() return a standard
data.frame (all 'financr' functions return a
data.frame) vs. 'yahoofinancer' methods return
an 'R6' class object, quantmod::getSymbols()
return a 'xts' & 'zoo' time series object,
etc.