The first update to the Rblpapi package since the initial CRAN upload in August is now available.

Rblpapi connects R to the Bloomberg system, giving access to a truly vast array of time series data and custom calculations.

This release brings a new beqs() functions to access the results from Bloomberg EQS queries, improves the build system a correct a bug in the retrieval of multiple tick series. The changes are detailed below.

Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.1 (2015-10-19)

• Added beqs() to run Bloomberg Equity Screen Search, based on initial PR #79 by Rademeyer Vermaak, reworked in PRs #83 and #84 by Dirk; closes tickets #63 and #80.

• Bloomberg header and library files are now cached locally instead of being re-downloaded for every build (PR #78 by Dirk addressing issue #65).

• For multiple ticks, time-stamps are unique-yfied before merging (PR #77 by Dirk addressing issue #76).

• A compiler warning under new g++ versions is now suppressed (PR #69 by John, fixing #68).

Courtesy of CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the this release. As always, more detailed information is on the Rblpapi. Questions, comments etc should go to the issue tickets system at the GitHub repo.

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