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<p><code>yfR</code> facilitates importing stock prices from Yahoo finance, organizing the data in the <code>tidy</code> format and speeding up the process using a cache system and parallel computing. <code>yfR</code> is the second and backwards-incompatible version of <a href="https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BatchGetSymbols" class="external-link">BatchGetSymbols</a>, released in 2016 (see vignette “99-yfR and Batch