R Observatory: Metrics for Rblpapi version 0.3.16

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rblpapi

0.3.16Package record

R Interface to 'Bloomberg'

1packages dependsuggested by 1

22.5Kdownloads / year

1.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An R Interface to 'Bloomberg' is provided via the 'Blp API'.

Changes in 0.3.16

A quota error message is now improved (Rodolphe Duge in 400)
Convert remaining throw into Rcpp::stop (Dirk in 402 fixing 401)
Add optional appIdentityKey argument to blpConnect (Kai Lin in 404)
Rework build as function of Blp library availability (Dirk and John in 406, 409, 410 fixing 407, 408)

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("Rblpapi", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("Rblp/Rblpapi")

Development version from Rblp/Rblpapi. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rblpapi

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-21
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.16

READMEYes · 133 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · mentions 0.3.16Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 20
Examples that run: 0%17 never run
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (1)

Introducing Rblpapi HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

22.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,381 · ~62/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

97130 days

3.3K90 days

22.5K1 year

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Also on439 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rblp/rblpapi ↗Organization: Rblp

178Stars

74Forks

38Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

762Commits

24Commit identities

rbloomberg-apibloombergcranr-packagercpp

762 commits · Last activity 2026-08-02 · +0.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.16.1, ahead of CRAN 0.3.16 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-31 · 1732026-10-21 · 178

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rblp/rblpapi on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (2)

EditorConfigRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rblpapi adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpputils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (5)

xts zoo data.table simplermarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

yrnd

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidyquant

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2015)

Whit Armstrong

Author

John Laing

Author

Releases (16)

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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getPortfolio
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-14
Total releases: 16 / 11 yrs
License: file LICENSE
Download size: 217 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rblpapi")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D., Armstrong, W., & Laing, J. (2025). Rblpapi: R Interface to 'Bloomberg' (Version 0.3.16) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rblpapi

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rblpapi version 0.3.16 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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