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Dear R Folks, I know that Enrique Bengoechea ( Credit Suisse ) had posted some code snippets for importing Bloomberg historical data into R. I found them to be very useful. Has anyone succeeded in getting the below items from Bloomberg to R? (a) historical economic release data, (b) tick/intra-day data (c) bulk data such as Index membership info, etc. If someone is willing to share their code to get Bloomberg d...

Hi R-Experts, Can anyone tell me how Bloomberg data can be directly downloaded to R? Is there any package? Sumanta Basak. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged infor...{{dropped}}

Hi R, Again the problem in Bloomberg, I give the below code, > con = blpConnect(show.days="trading",na.action="previous.days",periodicity="da ily")# connecting Bloomberg > div <- blpGetData(con,"IBM US Equity","EQY_DVD_HIST",start=as.chron(as.Date("01/01/2005", &...

Hi to all, Is there a way to use the API bloomberg functions BAddPeriods Binterpol Bcountperiods in RBloomberg? tnks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Bloomberg-API-functions-BAddPeriods-Binterpol-Bcountperiods-in-RBloomberg-tp4534163p4534163.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi David, I tried the following and get the below error messages.... con = blpConnect(show.days="trading",na.action="previous.days",periodicity="da ily")# connecting Bloomberg > dat <- blpGetData(con,"US4009703799 Equity","PX_LAST",start=as.chron(as.Date("01/01/2005", "%m/%d/%Y"),end=as.chron(Sys.Date()),retval="data.frame") > blpDisconnect(con) used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 480150 12.9 818163 2...

Hi Everyone. I am downloading intraday Bloomberg data from R. The code I give is: library(zoo) library(chron) library(RBloomberg) conn<-blpConnect(show.days="trading",na.action="previous.days",periodici ty="daily") dat<-blpGetData(conn, "VG1 Index", c("LAST_PRICE"), start=as.c...

Hi R, Can I convert ISIN numbers into Bloomberg tickers in the RBloomberg package? BR, Shubha [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...HIJ 50 1.0 Paul JKL 60 2.0 Paul MNO 12 3.0 and I would like the output to be in a data frame. Can anybody help? Thank you, Phil, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is communicated by Bloomberg Tradebook Europe Limited a company registered in England & Wales No. 3556095 whose registered office is at City Gate House, 39-45 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1 PQ and which is authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority registered under number 187492. Bloomberg Tradebook E...

Together with Enrique's running start and Prasad's work, we figured out how to get tick data and bulk data from Bloomberg into R. Here is a code snippet which builds on Enrique's. ---------------------------- require("RDCOMClient") blCon <<- try(blCon <- COMCreate("Bloomberg.Data.1"), silent=TRUE) # Always check the class of blCon before proceeding! # First tick data ticker <- &...

Dear All, when I try to call blpConnect() in order to open a connection to the Bloomberg on my machine, I receive following error message: R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) rJava Version 0.9-3 RBloomberg Version 0.4-150 Java environment initialized successfully. Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file... Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.8.1\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java class...

...e to back-test the performance of our screens; checking how the screened stock would've performed over the period in question. I am using quantmod in R to download the historical data from yahoo and then analyzing it using PerformanceAnalytics. My problem is that, as our screens are done using Bloomberg, my list of screened stocks only has Bloomberg tickers and ISINs. Does anybody know of a method which could convert ISINs to yahoo tickers/symbols?? Or a method of accessing yahoo historical data from an ISIN (instead of a symbol call)? I would prefer not to use RBloomberg to download the data as t...

I am having a puzzling problem with bloomberg connection. When i  run from R prompt some code that has .... library(Rbbg) conn <- blpConnect(throw.ticker.errors = FALSE) print("connected") ... I establish connection every time and then proceed to get data when i run this code from R prompt. However, when i run this from a batch...

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:24:10PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > The remote rsync is running out of memory as it collects the CVS > ignore rules (add_rule). Something could be awry with the CVS ignore > rules, or the machine could just be low on memory. Please run rsync > again with -vvv (three verbose options), which will make the remote > rsync show (among other useful

...form <mailbox>=<password>,<name>,<email>,<pager_email>,<options> ; if the e-mail is specified, a message will be sent when a message is ; received, to the given mailbox. If pager is specified, a message will be sent there as well. ; [default] 100 => XXXX,Ben Bloomberg,ben@benbloomberg.com,tz=eastern 101 => XXXX,Kiki Bloomberg,bphilips@ecs.umass.edu,tz=eastern 201 => XXXX,Brenda Philips,bphilips@ecs.umass.edu,tz=eastern 202 => XXXX,David Bloomberg,dbloomberg@northamptonlaw.com,tz=eastern 300 => XXXX,Rosalind Philips 301 => XXXX,Lisa Philips 302 =&g...

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.act...

> source("C:\\Documents and Settings\\smiller53\\Desktop\\perf.r") Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of 'c' being evaluated was: perf.r is a long script. how can I determine which line the error occurred on? TIA, SHane

Hi, all I wanted to fetch data from Bloomberg for govt bonds, and analyse it further. I am having trouble in getting data as when I use field=PX_LAST, it is giving the prices but when I use field=CPN, or ISSUE_DT, it is not giving the results and just bouncing back <NA> for that. This is the piece of code: > library(rJava)...

Hi R-Experts, I'm currently using R 2.4.0 in Windows XP. I'm trying to download data from Bloomberg using the package "RBloomberg", but it fails to install the three needed packages "zoo", "chron" and 'Rbloomberg". Moreover I am not able to find "RBloomberg" package as windows binary in CRAN site as only for MAC it's given. Please help me in th...

Hi there, I got the following errors when starting an application with wine. Can give anyone a hint what I have to change? Thanks Script started on Thu 05 Jun 2008 07:14:55 AM CEST marc at debian:~/.wine/drive_c/blp/Wintrv$ wine wintrv.exe ALSA lib ../../../src/seq/seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread Cannot

Hi, I am trying to download data from Bloomberg through R. If I try to download intraday data for multiple tickers and only one field, I get the error, written below in red. How do I get rid of this error? > dat<-blpGetData(conn, c("NOK1V FH Equity","AUA AV Equity"), "LAST_PRICE", start=as.chron(as.Date...