News for Package Rblpapi

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.10 (2019-04-02)

• The start.date format for bdh now allows character values with relative date expressions (John in #267) fixing #266).

• Relative date values are allowed in return (John in #269 fixing #268).

• The Rcpp::DateVector class is used instead of a local date vector class (John in #273).

• The file src/init.c is now redundant and removed as updated registration is in src/RcppExports.cpp (Davis Vaugh in #275 fixing #274).

• Returned strings are now marked as UTF-8 encoded (Xianying Tan in #278)

• Date vectors are now initialized with NA (Xianying Tan in #279 fixing an inssue introduced in #273)

• Authentication for BPIPE is now supported (Alfred Kanzler in #288 with assistance help from Dirk and John)

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.9 (2019-02-20)

• Add 'StagedInstall: no' to DESCRIPTION to accomodate R 3.6.0.

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

• This release should have been 0.3.7 but was accidentally tagged as 0.3.8 in the DESCRIPTION file so we skipped 0.3.7.

• 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)

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.6 (2017-04-20)

• bdh can now store in double preventing overflow (Whit and John in #205 closing #163)

• bdp documentation has another ovveride example

• A new function lookupSecurity can search for securities, optionally filtered by yellow key (Kevin Jin and Dirk in #216 and #217 closing #215)

• Added file init.c with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols(); also use .registration=TRUE in useDynLib in NAMESPACE (Dirk in #220)

• getBars and getTicks can now return data.table objects (Dirk in #221)

• bds has improved internal protect logic via Rcpp::Shield (Dirk in #222)

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.5 (2016-10-25)

• Add new function getPortfolio to retrieve portfolio data via bds (John in #176)

• Extend getTicks() to (optionally) return non-numeric data as part of data.frame or data.table (Dirk in #200)

• Similarly extend getMultipleTicks (Dirk in #202)

• Correct statement on timestamp for getBars (Closes issue #192)

• Minor edits to a few files in order to either please R(-devel) CMD check --as-cran, or update documentation

• Adding registration of routines are R 3.4.0 now desires.

• Optional export as data.table is now more standardized.

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.4 (2016-05-08)

• On startup, the API versions of both the headers and the runtime are displayed (PR #161 and #165).

• Documentation about extended futures roll notation was added to the bdh manul page.

• Additional examples for overrides where added to bdh (PR #158).

• Internal code changes make retrieval of data in ‘unusual’ variable types more robust (PRs #157 and #153)

• General improvements and fixes to documentation (PR #156)

• The bdp function now also supports an option verbose (PR #149).

• The internal header Rblpapi_types.h was renamed from a lower-cased variant to conform with Rcpp Attributes best practices (PR #145).

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.3 (2016-03-14)

• configure adds a missing method="libcurl" options (PR #109 by Martin Bel).

• New function bsrch() adds basic search functionality (PR #111 by Morgan Williams fixing ticket #82).

• The licensing status of the Rblpapi source package was clarified (PR #119).

• The bds() help page now shows an example using an overrides argument (PR #121).

• A new function fieldInfo was added, and field information is used in bdh and bdp (PRs #122, #123, #125, and #127).

• The bdp function now checks the order (PR #126).

• Unit testing was added (PRs #129 and #131).

• Data retrieval is now smarter about the types returned from Bloomberg (PR #132 and #133; and #141 and #142).

• The bdh and bds functions now support an option verbose (PRs #138).

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.2 (2015-12-06)

• A new subscribe() function supports live data subscription for a set of tickers and fields (#88).

• In the beqs() example the correct date format is used (PR #85 by Rademeyer).

• Both getTicks() and getBars() now check the start and end times for proper Datetime class.

• The getBars() function now also return the ‘value traded’ (request of #89).

• An error in the documentation for bdh was corrected (PR #93 by Rademeyer closing #85).

• The beqs() function is now more robust with respect to empty return columns (PR #100 by Rademeyer fixing ticket #99).

• The getBars() function now uses a single (named) vector options to pass optional values to the underlying function (PR #105 updating PR #48 and fixing #47).

• When R is built with libcurl support, it used to download the build-time library and headers; otherwise curl is used. This avoids an issue on OS X where curl is insufficient.

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.1 (2015-10-19)

• Added beqs() to run Bloomberg Equity Screen Search, based on initial PR #79 by Rademeyer Vermaak, reworked in PRs #83 and #84 by Dirk; closes tickets #63 and #80.

• Bloomberg header and library files are now cached locally instead of being re-downloaded for every build (PR #78 by Dirk addressing issue #65).

• For multiple ticks, time-stamps are unique-yfied before merging (PR #77 by Dirk addressing issue #76).

• A compiler warning under new g++ versions is now suppressed (PR #69 by John, fixing #68).

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.0 (2015-08-13)

• First CRAN Release

• Source and binary builds supported on Linux, Windows and OS X

• Build procedures rewritten so that required headers and libraries are downloaded during installation from corresponding GitHub repo Rblp/blp which contains custom tarballs derived from the corresponding upstream releases at https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/.