Changes in version 0.3.16 (2025-03-31) o A quota error message is now improved (Rodolphe Duge in #400) o Convert remaining throw into Rcpp::stop (Dirk in #402 fixing #401) o Add optional appIdentityKey argument to blpConnect (Kai Lin in #404) o Rework build as function of Blp library availability (Dirk and John in #406, #409, #410 fixing #407, #408) Changes in version 0.3.15 (2024-09-18) o A warning is now issued if more than 1000 results are returned (John in #377 addressing #375) o A few typos in the rblpapi-intro vignette were corrected (Michael Streatfield in #378) o The continuous integration setup was updated (Dirk in #388) o Deprecation warnings over char* where C++ class Name is now preferred have been addressed (Dirk in #391) o Several package files have been updated (Dirk in #392) o The request formation has been corrected, and an example was added (Dirk and John in #394 and #396) o The Bloomberg API has been upgraded to release 3.24.6.1 (Dirk in #397) Changes in version 0.3.14 (2022-10-06) o Build configuration was generalized to consider local copies of library and headers (Dirk in #362) o A ticker symbol was corrected (Dirk in #368 addressing an issue #366 and #367) o Support for B-PIPE was added (Robert Harlow in #369 closing #342) o The package no longer requires staged installation thanks to an assist from Tomas Kalibera (Dirk in #373) o The retired package fts is no longer suggested (Dirk in #374 closing #372) Changes in version 0.3.13 (2022-01-09) o Add a test for bds (Michael Kerber in #352) o Add simplify argument (and option) to bdh and bds (Dirk in #354 closing #353, #351) o Improve documentation for bsearch (John in #357 closing #356) Changes in version 0.3.12 (2021-12-07) o bdh() supports new option returnAs (Michael Kerber and Dirk in #335 fixing #206) o Remove extra backtick in vignette (Yihui Xie in #343) o Fix a segfault from bulk access with bds (Kai Lin in #347 fixing #253) o Support REQUEST_STATUS in bdh (Kai Lin and John in #349 fixing #348) o Vignette now uses simplermarkdown (Dirk in #350) Changes in version 0.3.11 (2021-04-20) o Support blpAutoAuthenticate and B-PIPE access, refactor and generalise authentication (James Bell in #285) o Deprecate excludeterm (John in #306) o Correct example in README.md (Maxime Legrand in #314) o Correct bds man page (and code) (Michael Kerber, and John, in #320) o Add GitHub Actions continuous integration (Dirk in #323) o Remove bashisms detected by R CMD check (Dirk #324) o Switch vignette to minidown (Dirk in #331) o Switch unit tests framework to tinytest (Dirk in #332) Changes in version 0.3.10 (2019-04-07) o The start.date format for bdh now allows character values with relative date expressions (John in #267 fixing #266). o Relative date values are allowed in return (John in #269 fixing #268). o The Rcpp::DateVector class is used instead of a local date vector class (John in #273). o The file src/init.c is now redundant and removed as updated registration is in src/RcppExports.cpp (Davis Vaughan in #275 fixing #274). o Returned strings are now marked as UTF-8 encoded (Xianying Tan in #278) o Date vectors are now initialized with NA (Xianying Tan in #279 fixing an inssue introduced in #273) o Authentication for BPIPE is now supported (Alfred Kanzler in #288 with assistance help from Dirk and John) Changes in version 0.3.9 (2019-02-21) o Add 'StagedInstall: no' to DESCRIPTION to accomodate R 3.6.0. Changes in version 0.3.8 (2018-01-21) o 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. o The 140 day limit for intra-day data histories is now mentioned in the getTicks help (Dirk in #226 addressing #215 and #225). o The Travis CI script was updated to use run.sh (Dirk in #226). o The install_name_tool invocation under macOS was corrected (@spennihana in #232) o The blpAuthenticate help page has additional examples (@randomee in #252). o The blpAuthenticate code was updated and improved (Whit in #258 addressing #257) Changes in version 0.3.6 (2017-04-20) o bdh can now store in double preventing overflow (Whit and John in #205 closing #163) o bdp documentation has another ovveride example o A new function lookupSecurity can search for securities, optionally filtered by yellow key (Kevin Jin and Dirk in #216 and #217 closing #215) o Added file init.c with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols(); also use .registration=TRUE in useDynLib in NAMESPACE (Dirk in #220) o getBars and getTicks can now return data.table objects (Dirk in #221) o bds has improved internal protect logic via Rcpp::Shield (Dirk in #222) Changes in version 0.3.5 (2016-10-25) o Add new function getPortfolio to retrieve portfolio data via bds (John in #176) o Extend getTicks() to (optionally) return non-numeric data as part of data.frame or data.table (Dirk in #200) o Similarly extend getMultipleTicks (Dirk in #202) o Correct statement on timestamp for getBars (Closes issue #192) o Minor edits to a few files in order to either please R(-devel) CMD check --as-cran, or update documentation o Adding registration of routines are R 3.4.0 now desires. o Optional export as data.table is now more standardized. Changes in version 0.3.4 (2016-05-08) o On startup, the API versions of both the headers and the runtime are displayed (PR #161 and #165). o Documentation about extended futures roll notation was added to the bdh manul page. o Additional examples for overrides where added to bdh (PR #158). o Internal code changes make retrieval of data in ‘unusual’ variable types more robust (PRs #157 and #153) o General improvements and fixes to documentation (PR #156) o The bdp function now also supports an option verbose (PR #149). o The internal header Rblpapi_types.h was renamed from a lower-cased variant to conform with Rcpp Attributes best practices (PR #145). Changes in version 0.3.3 (2016-03-15) o configure adds a missing method="libcurl" options (PR #109 by Martin Bel). o New function bsrch() adds basic search functionality (PR #111 by Morgan Williams fixing ticket #82). o The licensing status of the Rblpapi source package was clarified (PR #119). o The bds() help page now shows an example using an overrides argument (PR #121). o A new function fieldInfo was added, and field information is used in bdh and bdp (PRs #122, #123, #125, and #127). o The bdp function now checks the order (PR #126). o Unit testing was added (PRs #129 and #131). o Data retrieval is now smarter about the types returned from Bloomberg (PR #132 and #133; and #141 and #142). o The bdh and bds functions now support an option verbose (PRs #138). Changes in version 0.3.2 (2015-12-07) o A new subscribe() function supports live data subscription for a set of tickers and fields (#88). o In the beqs() example the correct date format is used (PR #85 by Rademeyer). o Both getTicks() and getBars() now check the start and end times for proper Datetime class. o The getBars() function now also return the ‘value traded’ (request of #89). o An error in the documentation for bdh was corrected (PR #93 by Rademeyer closing #85). o The beqs() function is now more robust with respect to empty return columns (PR #100 by Rademeyer fixing ticket #99). o 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). o 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 version 0.3.1 (2015-10-20) o 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. o Bloomberg header and library files are now cached locally instead of being re-downloaded for every build (PR #78 by Dirk addressing issue #65). o For multiple ticks, time-stamps are unique-yfied before merging (PR #77 by Dirk addressing issue #76). o A compiler warning under new g++ versions is now suppressed (PR #69 by John, fixing #68). Changes in version 0.3.0 (2015-08-14) o First CRAN Release o Source and binary builds supported on Linux, Windows and OS X o 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 .