Rblpapi 0.3.8: Strictly maintenance

Another Rblpapi release, now at version 0.3.8, arrived on CRAN yesterday. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required).

This is the eight release since the package first appeared on CRAN in 2016. This release wraps up a few smaller documentation and setup changes, but also includes an improvement to the (less frequently-used) subscription mode which Whit cooked up on the weekend. Details below:

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.8 (2018-01-20)

• The 140 day limit for intra-day data histories is now mentioned in the getTicks help (Dirk in #226 addressing #215 and #225).

• The Travis CI script was updated to use run.sh (Dirk in #226).

• The install_name_tool invocation under macOS was corrected (@spennihana in #232)

• The blpAuthenticate help page has additional examples (@randomee in #252).

• The blpAuthenticate code was updated and improved (Whit in #258 addressing #257)

• The jump in version number was an oversight; this should have been 0.3.7.

And only while typing up these notes do I realize that I fat-fingered the version number. This should have been 0.3.7. Oh well.

Courtesy of 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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