release 0.3.9 (closes #290) (#291)

* release 0.3.9

* more URL updates needed bloomberglags no longer documents API

Author: eddelbuettel

.Rbuildignore

@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 ^inst/blp
 src/Makevars$
 .Rhistory
+^.*\.tar\.gz$

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+2019-02-21  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
+
+	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): New release 0.3.9
+
+	* vignettes/rblpapi-intro.Rmd (vignette): Updated (old) API download
+	URL to new location
+	* DESCRIPTION: Idem
+	* README.md: Idem
+	* configure: Idem
+
+2019-02-20  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
+
+	* DESCRIPTION: Set 'StagedInstall: no' to accomidate R 3.6.0
+
+	* inst/NEWS.Rd: Updated (old) API download URL to new location
+
 2018-10-25  John Laing  <[email protected]>
 
 	* DESCRIPTION (Date): Roll date
@@ -39,7 +55,8 @@
 
 2018-01-20  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
 
-	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): New release 0.3.7
+	* DESCRIPTION (Version, Date): New release 0.3.8
+	  (which should have been named 0.3.7)
 
 2018-01-19  Whit Armstrong  <[email protected]>
 

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
 Package: Rblpapi
 Title: R Interface to 'Bloomberg'
-Version: 0.3.8.1
-Date: 2018-10-25
+Version: 0.3.9.1
+Date: 2019-02-20
 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
 Author: Whit Armstrong, Dirk Eddelbuettel and John Laing
 Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.11.0), utils
 Suggests: fts, xts, zoo, data.table, knitr, RUnit
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 LazyLoad: yes
+StagedInstall: no
 LinkingTo: Rcpp, BH
 Description: An R Interface to 'Bloomberg' is provided via the 'Blp API'.
 SystemRequirements: A valid Bloomberg installation. The API headers and
- dynamic library are downloaded from <https://github.com/Rblp/blp> during
- the build step. See <https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/cpp/3.8> as 
- well as <http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/> for API documentation. A 
- compiler recent enough for (at least partial) C++11 support; g++-4.6.* 
- or later should be sufficient and g++-4.9.* or later is preferred.
+ dynamic library are downloaded from <https://github.com/Rblp/blp> during the
+ build step. See <https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/cpp/3.8> as well as
+ <https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/> for API
+ documentation. A compiler recent enough for (at least partial) C++11
+ support is required; g++-4.6.* or later should be sufficient and g++-4.9.*
+ or later is preferred.
 URL: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html, https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi
 BugReports: https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues
 License: file LICENSE

README.md

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ R Access to Bloomberg API
 ### Background
 
 Rblpapi provides R with access to data and calculations from Bloomberg
-Finance L.P. via the [API libraries](https://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/libraries/) provided by
-Bloomberg at [Bloomberg Labs](https://www.bloomberglabs.com).
+Finance L.P. via the [API libraries](https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/) provided by
+Bloomberg.
 
 
 ### Requirements

configure

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ elif [ ${sysname} == "Darwin" ]; then
     platform="osx"
 else
     echo "Unsupported platform: $sysname"
-    echo "Check http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/libraries/ for possible support first."
+    echo "Check https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ for possible support first."
     echo "Contributions welcome, see https://github.com/Rblp/blp for integration with Rblapi."
     exit -1
 fi

inst/NEWS.Rd

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \newcommand{\ghpr}{\href{https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/pull/#1}{##1}}
 \newcommand{\ghit}{\href{https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi/issues/#1}{##1}}
 
-\section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.8 (2018-xx-yy)}{
+\section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.10 (2019-xx-yy)}{
   \itemize{
     \item The \code{start.date} format for \code{bdh} now allows character
     values with relative date expressions (John in \ghpr{267}) fixing
@@ -19,12 +19,21 @@
   }
 }
 
-\section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.7 (2018-01-20)}{
+\section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.9 (2019-02-20)}{
   \itemize{
+    \item Add 'StagedInstall: no' to DESCRIPTION to accomodate R 3.6.0.
+  }
+}
+
+\section{Changes in Rblpapi version 0.3.8 (2018-01-20)}{
+  \itemize{
+    \item This release should have been 0.3.7 but was accidentally
+    tagged as 0.3.8 in the DESCRIPTION file so we skipped 0.3.7.
     \item The 140 day limit for intra-day data histories is now
     mentioned in the \code{getTicks} help (Dirk in \ghpr{226} addressing
     \ghit{215} and \ghit{225}).
-    \item The Travis CI script was updated to use \code{run.sh} (Dirk in \ghpr{226}).
+    \item The Travis CI script was updated to use \code{run.sh} (Dirk in
+    \ghpr{226}).
     \item The \code{install_name_tool} invocation under macOS was
     corrected (@spennihana in \ghit{232})
     \item The \code{blpAuthenticate} help page has additional examples
@@ -156,6 +165,7 @@
     \item Build procedures rewritten so that required headers and
     libraries are downloaded during installation from corresponding GitHub
     repo \ghrepo{Rblp/blp} which contains custom tarballs derived from the
-    corresponding upstream releases at \url{http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api}.
+    corresponding upstream releases at
+    \url{https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/ }.
   }
 }

vignettes/rblpapi-intro.Rmd

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ vignette: >
 The [Rblpapi package](https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi) connects the
 [R language and environment for statistical computing](https://www.r-project.org)
 to the [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com) services supported by the
-[official Bloomberg APIs](https://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/).
+[official Bloomberg APIs](https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/).
 
 The [Rblpapi package](https://github.com/Rblp/Rblpapi) is provided in both
 source and binary (for Windows and OS X) via the
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ directories `src/`, `R/`, ...) is released under the
 
 All code retrieved from the [blp](https://github.com/Rblp/blp) repository
 during build is released by Bloomberg, available at the
-[BloombergLabs API](http://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/libraries/) site
+[Bloomberg API](https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/support/api-library/) site
 and released under the license included below.
 
 ```