0.3.14

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.14 (2022-10-05)

• Build configuration was generalized to consider local copies of library and headers (Dirk in #362)

• A ticker symbol was corrected (Dirk in #368 addressing an issue #366 and #367)

• Support for B-PIPE was added (Robert Harlow in #369 closing #342)

• The package no longer requires staged installation thanks to an assist from Tomas Kalibera (Dirk in #373)

• The retired package [fts]{.pkg} is no longer suggested (Dirk in #374 closing #372)

Release 0.3.13

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.13 (2022-01-09)

• Add a test for bds (Michael Kerber in #352)

• Add simplify argument (and option) to bdh and bds (Dirk in #354 closing #353, #351)

• Improve documentation for bsearch (John in #357 closing #356)

Release 0.3.12

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.12 (2021-12-07)

• bdh() supports new option returnAs (Michael Kerber and Dirk in #335 fixing #206)

• Remove extra backtick in vignette (Yihui Xie in #343)

• Fix a segfault from bulk access with bds (Kai Lin in #347 fixing #253)

• Support REQUEST_STATUS in bdh (Kai Lin and John in #349 fixing #348)

• Vignette now uses [simplermarkdown]{.pkg} (Dirk in #350)

Release 0.3.11

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)

Release 0.3.10

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 i #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 Vaughan 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)

Release 0.3.9

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

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

Release 0.3.7 and 0.3.8

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.7 and 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.

Release 0.3.6

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)

Release 0.3.5

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