[R-SIG-Finance] Rblpapi testing needed
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd @end|ng |rom deb|@n@org
Wed Sep 4 22:26:11 CEST 2024
On 30 August 2024 at 13:11, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| The Rblpapi package is readying a new release with updated libraries. This
| would also bring, inter alia, a version for arm64 macOS.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| remotes::install_github("Rblp/Rblpapi", ref="feature/release_3.24.6.1")
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| will do this. Windows users need Rtools, of course. You should then see
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| > 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.
Michael was able to help so we have some progress towards a new release. More
at the GitHub repo of Rblpapi.
Cheers, Dirk
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