[This article was first published on R-posts.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.{talib} is a newR package built on TA-Lib, which is nowavailable on CRAN. The R-package is targeted at individualsand, perhaps, institutions who, in some form or the other, interactswith the financial markets using technical analysis.The library is built with minimal dependencies for long-termstability and freedom in mind. All functions are built arounddata.frame– and matrix-classes which areportable to all other data-containers with minimal effort.Everything in the library is built ‘bottom-up’ for maximum speed andmemory efficiency. Each indicator interacts directly with R’s C API via.Call().In this blog post I will give a brief introduction to the chartinginterface which is built to mimick the behaviour of baseR’s plotting API.A quick introduction to chartsIn this section I will briefly introduce the most important aspectsof the charting, ‘quality of life’-features and themes. Below is asimple starting point; charting BTC:talib::chart( talib::BTC)chart() returns a candlestick chart by default. Beloware the formals:str(formals(talib::chart))#> Dotted pair list of 5#> $ x : symbol #> $ type : chr "candlestick"#> $ idx : NULL#> $ title: symbol #> $ ... : symbolModifying themestalib::set_theme("hawks_and_doves")talib::chart( talib::BTC)Charting indicators{ talib::chart(talib::BTC) talib::indicator(talib::SMA, n = 7) talib::indicator(talib::SMA, n = 14) talib::indicator(talib::SMA, n = 21) talib::indicator(talib::SMA, n = 28) talib::indicator(talib::MACD) talib::indicator(talib::trading_volume)}Installation{talib} is finally on CRAN, and can be installed asfollows:install.packages("talib")It can also be built from source with additionalCMake-flags:install.packages( "talib", type = "source", configure.args = "-O3 -march=native")Contributing and submitting bug-reports{talib} is still in its early stage so contributions,even if small, bug-reports, suggestions and critiques are gratefullyaccepted.Visit the repository here: https://github.com/serkor1/ta-lib-R.Created on 2026-04-29 with reprex v2.1.1{talib}: Interactive financial charts was first posted on June 18, 2026 at 5:09 am.To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R-posts.com.R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.Continue reading: {talib}: Interactive financial charts