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R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch"

This release implements automatic Github publication, via Github release API.
This will be particularly useful for those "mechanical releases", where it is only necessary to update the R version or similar trivial, non-thought tasks.

Dev features
bloomr.build has been radically rewritten
bloomr.release: new code intended for automatic releases, provided you have the auth tokens.

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R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10) -- "Very Secure Dishes"
More options in br.bdh See documentation.
read.xlx: more about Excel date internals
read.xlx: time2str argument, dtconv
read.xlx: bug fix: Excel keeps sharedStrings.xml books w/ strings edited as number-only books.
read.xlx: header.sheets defaults to T; no conversion warns if general='numeric'
read.xlx: format conversion priorities and tmp folder removal

Dev features
bloomr.build: new url.exists.cert, download.* defaults to SSL
bloomr.build: url.exists always ssl
bloomr.build: SF to https; blpapi to bintray.com

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br.getLatexAddons()

Pandoc, the engine behind br.md2pdf(), is making some releases without executables (only source code). Unfortunately, br.getPandoc(), called by br.getLatexAddons() to download Pandoc, assumes that the latest release always comes with an executable attached. Therefore it fails when the latter is missing. To cope with this, the new version of br.getPandoc() looks for the latest Pandoc version featuring an executable.

Also, the new .br.getPandoc.release() has been added. This is a function, mostly for internal use, returning a vector with the version number of the latest Pandoc and TRUE/FALSE depending on whether the Windows executable being available or not.

br.md2pdf()

br.md2pdf() is more informative in case it fails to generate the PDF.

read.xlx()

read.xlx() is more informative on errors concerning malformed arguments. For example, you pass a string where an integer or a boolean is expected.

It also adds the new skip argument. This argument allows you to skip the first n rows when importing an Excel file. Additionally, you can choose to skip rows above or below the header, if any. Read the help for more details.

The green installer

Admittedly the green installer interface, while getting the its job done, was clearly made a bit in a rush. The interface has been revamped and now gives better details about single steps.

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Reporting improvements

Added br.getLatexAddons(), br.md2pdf() to simplify PDF reporting.
reporting.pdf added in help directory

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All knitr dependencies added for faster reproducible research.

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This release is stable.

Bug fixes to read.xlx not requiring now separate downloads of reshaping and progress bar libs.

Grab your copy of the new BloomR Classroom Companion in the resources added here.

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Updated to R v3.1.3

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• Only 64 bit (it means less space).
• Updated to R-3.1.2.
• Generation of automatic HTML reports for web publishing or in PDF (PDF's require a separate large add-on to be downloaded separately)
• New functions for bulk download using tickers from CSV files, from index constituents or from ticker vectors.
• Simulated download allows to prepare scripts at home and test on Bloomberg terminal later.
• Bulk and non-bulk download of many description fields.
• More consistent naming scheme: bbg.* suffix is deprecated now, use br.*
• A formal documentation (see bloomr.html or bloomr.pdf)
• Demo and examples.
• BloomR can be downloaded as a binary or generated from an R script. So you can stay always updated with the latest version of R (and related packages).
• Green installer, to simplify extraction of BloomR files.

Debut

The source code for these binaries is not available as it is prior to this GitHub project.
Binaries are uploaded here for historical reasons and for backward compatibility.

These binaries are intended to work both on 32 and 64 bit systems.