[R-SIG-Finance] Rblpapi testing needed

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

The Rblpapi package is readying a new release with updated libraries. This
would also bring, inter alia, a version for arm64 macOS.

Now, if *you* are familiar with Rblpapi, can build it from source and have
built it from source *we would love to hear from you*.  For "reasons" neither
John nor I can test it right now but as responsible stewards of the code we
would appreciate some testing prior to next steps.

In short, we have a development branch at Rblpapi will builds against a
corresponding development branch at the blp repo providing binary blobs from
Bloomberg (repackaged for our use).  A command such as

   remotes::install_github("Rblp/Rblpapi", ref="feature/release_3.24.6.1")

will do this. Windows users need Rtools, of course. You should then see

   > library(Rblpapi)    
   Rblpapi version 0.3.14.1 using Blpapi headers 3.24.6.1 and run-time 3.24.6.1. 
   Please respect the Bloomberg licensing agreement and terms of service.
   >  

Please come to the GitHub repo for Rblpapi with any questions.

Thanks,  Dirk and John

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