Hello, again, everyone
I went through the code and narrowed down the problem
in blpConnect:
COMCreate("Bloomberg.Data.1") which then calls getCOMInstance does not
work, because
getCLSID("Bloomberg.Data.1") returns
"Fehler: Invalid class string"
What is this problem???
Best,
Sergey
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:16, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hello, everyone!
>
> I have a problem with RBloomberg and this is not the usual "no
> administrator rights" problem.
>
> I have R 2.7.2, RBloomberg 0.1-10, RDCOMclient 0.92-0
>
> RDCOMClient, chron, zoo, stats: these packages load OK.
>
> Then, trying to connect, I get following error message:
>
>
> ?conn <- blpConnect(show.days="week",
na.action="previous.days",
> periodicity="daily")
> Warning messages:
> 1: In getCOMInstance(name, force = TRUE, silent = TRUE) :
> ?Couldn't get clsid from the string
> 2: In blpConnect(show.days = "week", na.action =
"previous.days",
> periodicity = "daily") :
> ?Seems like this is not a Bloomberg Workstation: ?Error : Invalid class
string
>
> Anyone encountered this problem?
> What is wrong and how can I solve it?
>
> Online, I found just one instance of this problem discussed, and it
> was in Chinese:
>
> http://cos.name/bbs/read.php?tid=12821&fpage=3
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Sergey
>
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