Codestin Search App

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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.

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)

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

Releases: Rblp/Rblpapi