R Observatory: Metrics for Rblpapi version 0.3.16

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rblpapi

0.3.16

R Interface to 'Bloomberg'

2packages depend

32.9Kdownloads / year

1.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2015-08-1416 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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

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.

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

1.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-21
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 133 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

32.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,843 · ~90/day · ~2.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

5.3K90 days

32.9K1 year

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Also on471 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rblp/rblpapi

176Stars

75Forks

38Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

762Commits

24Contributors

rbloomberg-apibloombergcranr-packagercpp

762 commits · Last activity 2026-08-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-31 · 1712026-07-07 · 176

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rblp/rblpapi on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Lint, format, editor (2)

EditorConfigRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

2direct

0indirect

yrnd tidyquant

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

Whit Armstrong

Author

John Laing

Author

Package Timeline

16 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.16Latest
2025-03-31 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.15
2024-09-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.14
2022-10-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.13
2022-01-09 · diff ↗
0.3.12
2021-12-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.11
2021-04-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.10
2019-04-07 · diff ↗
0.3.9
2019-02-21 · diff ↗

Show 12 earlier events

R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.8
2018-01-21 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.6
2017-04-20 · diff ↗
0.3.5
2016-10-25 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2016-05-08 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.3
2016-03-15 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2015-12-07 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2015-10-20 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2015-08-14
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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

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Cite the R Observatory

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 v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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