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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2016/05/08#rblpapi_0.3.4"> Thinking inside the box </a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>A new release of <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html">Rblpapi</a> is now on <a target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a>. It provides a direct interface between <a target="_blank" href="http://www.r-project.org/">R</a> and the <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal">Bloomberg Terminal</a> via the C++ API provided by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/">Bloomberg Labs</a> (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required).</p>
<p>This marks the fifth release since the package first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="http://cran.r-project.org/">CRAN</a> last year. Continued thanks to all contributors for code, suggestions or bug reports. This release contains a lot of internal fixes by Whit, John and myself and should prove to be more resilient to ‘odd’ representations of data coming back. The <code>NEWS.Rd</code> extract has more details:</p>
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Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.4 (2016-05-08)<br>
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On startup, the API versions of both the headers and the runtime are displayed (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/161">#161</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/165">#165</a>).
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Documentation about extended futures roll notation was added to the <code>bdh</code> manual page.
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Additional examples for overrides where added to <code>bdh</code> (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/158">#158</a>).
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Internal code changes make retrieval of data in ‘unusual’ variable types more robust (PRs <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/157">#157</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/153">#153</a>)
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General improvements and fixes to documentation (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/156">#156</a>)
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The <code>bdp</code> function now also supports an option <code>verbose</code> (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/149">#149</a>).
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The internal header <code>Rblpapi_types.h</code> was renamed from a lower-cased variant to conform with Rcpp Attributes best practices (PR <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/145">#145</a>).
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<p>Courtesy of <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a>, there is also a diffstat report for the <a target="_blank" href="hhttp://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/2016/05/08#Rblpapi_0.3.4">this release</a>. As always, more detailed information is on the <a target="_blank" 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" href="https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi">GitHub repo</a>.</p>
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This post by <a target="_blank" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/">Dirk Eddelbuettel</a> originated on his <a target="_blank" 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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