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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/04/20#rblpapi_0.3.6"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Time for a new release of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html">Rblpapi</a> — version 0.3.6 is now on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html">Rblpapi</a> provides a direct interface between <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.r-project.org/">R</a> and the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal">Bloomberg Terminal</a> via the C++ API provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/">Bloomberg Labs</a> (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required).</p>
<p>This is the seventh release since the package first appeared on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a> last year. This release brings a very nice new function <code>lookupSecurity()</code> contributed by Kevin Jin as well as a number of small fixes and enhancements. Details below:</p>
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<h4>Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.6 (2017-04-20)</h4>
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<p><code>bdh</code> can now store in <code>double</code> preventing overflow (Whit and John in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/205">#205</a> closing <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues/163">#163</a>)</p>
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<p><code>bdp</code> documentation has another ovveride example</p>
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<p>A new function <code>lookupSecurity</code> can search for securities, optionally filtered by yellow key (Kevin Jin and Dirk in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/216">#216</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/217">#217</a> closing <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues/215">#215</a>)</p>
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<p>Added file <code>init.c</code> with calls to <code>R_registerRoutines()</code> and <code>R_useDynamicSymbols()</code>; also use <code>.registration=TRUE</code> in <code>useDynLib</code> in <code>NAMESPACE</code> (Dirk in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/220">#220</a>)</p>
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<p><code>getBars</code> and <code>getTicks</code> can now return <code>data.table</code> objects (Dirk in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/221">#221</a>)</p>
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<p><code>bds</code> has improved internal protect logic via <code>Rcpp::Shield</code> (Dirk in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/222">#222</a>)</p>
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<p>Courtesy of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a>, there is also a diffstat report for the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="hhttp://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2017/04/20#Rblpapi_0.3.6">this release</a>. As always, more detailed information is on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html">Rblpapi</a> page. Questions, comments etc should go to the issue tickets system at the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi">GitHub repo</a>.</p>
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This post by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/">Thinking inside the box</a> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.</p>
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