Tue, 20 Apr 2021

Rblpapi 0.3.11: Several Updates

A new version 0.3.11 of Rblpapi is now arriving at CRAN. It comes two years after the release of version Rblpapit 0.3.10 and brings a few updates and extensions.

Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required).

This is the eleventh release since the package first appeared on CRAN in 2016. Changes are detailed below. Special thanks to James, Maxime and Michael for sending us pull requests.

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.11 (2021-04-20)

  • Support blpAutoAuthenticate and B-PIPE access, refactor and generalise authentication (James Bell in #285)

  • Deprecate excludeterm (John in #306)

  • Correct example in README.md (Maxime Legrand in #314)

  • Correct bds man page (and code) (Michael Kerber, and John, in #320)

  • Add GitHub Actions continuous integration (Dirk in #323)

  • Remove bashisms detected by R CMD check (Dirk #324)

  • Switch vignette to minidown (Dirk in #331)

  • Switch unit tests framework to tinytest (Dirk in #332)

Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the this release. As always, more detailed information is on the Rblpapi page. Questions, comments etc should go to the issue tickets system at the GitHub repo.

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