similar to: RBloomberg Multi-ticker problem

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.chron(as.Date("2006-9-01",

Hi R experts, The below is an RBloomerg command. The object "intra" here is a zoo object. I need to convert this zoo object into a data frame, called bb. " library(zoo) library(chron) library(RDCOMClient) library(RBloomberg) conn<-blpConnect(show.days="trading",na.action="previous.days",periodici ty="daily") intra<-blpGetData(conn,

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

Hi, I am downloading Bloomberg data from R. This data will be stored in a zoo object by default. The command is dat<-blpGetData(con,c("NOK1V FH Equity","AUA AV Equity"),"PX_OPEN",start=as.chron(as.Date("12/1/2006", "%m/%d/%Y")),end=as.chron(as.Date("12/28/2006", "%m/%d/%Y"))) Here I am downloading the data for two

Hello I'm working with a bunch of time series data. The data are downloaded from a server and stored as ascii files prior to reading them into R. After reading the data sets read into R with no problem and I can us the ts function to coerce them to time series, sometimes this works and sometimes it fails. For example. P38_SubB <-

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

Hello, I am using te blpGetData() function to retrieve closing prices from bloomberg on r. This is the code that I wrote: library(RBloomberg) conn=blpConnect blpGetData(conn,"ANF UN Equity","PX_LAST","2009/09/01","2009/09/10") and I get the following error: Error in substring(paste("0", v$day, sep = ""), first = nchar(paste(v$day))) :

I try to use RBloomberg to get the dividend for IBM. However, blpGetData(conn, "IBM EQUITY", field="EQY_DVD_HIST_ALL", start=as.chron("1980-01-01")) doesn't work. It returns EQY_DVD_HIST_ALL (10/02/08 14:46:36) NA I have to used blpGetData(conn, "IBM EQUITY", "EQY_DVD_SH_12M_NET",

Hello R-Experts, Currently I'm using "RBloomberg" package in R-2.2.1 in Windows machine ( XP). When I'm running one specific example using blpGetData given in help file I'm getting the following error message. conn <- blpConnect() edb <- blpGetData(conn, "ED1 Comdty", "PX_LAST", start=chron("1/1/06"),

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",

To all: I'm using RBloomberg to pull historical equity prices across a range of international markets. Bloomberg defaults to returning stock prices to R in local currency, for example, blpGetData(conn, "ALUA AR Equity", "PX_LAST",start="09/30/08", end="09/30/08") returns a stock price in Argentine Peso's. If ones use the BLPH function directly

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", "%m/%d/%Y")),end=as.chron(Sys.Date())) >

Hi! I'm a new R user and I have a question about estimating VAR on a panel data. What I'm trying to do is to explain stock's volume on it's lagged volume, it's lagged returns and lagged market return's (and vice versa). In addition I have generated an exogenous variable controlling for stock's volatility. Some of you may be familiar with this experiment since it follows

Hi, I'm running R 2.10.1 GUI 1.31 Leopard build 64-bit (5537). I cannot install RBloomberg on my Mac. After I type: install.packages("RBloomberg", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") I get the following message: Warning in install.packages("RBloomberg", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org") : argument 'lib' is missing: using

I have the following error message when I try to install RBloomberg. Les packages binaires t?l?charg?s sont dans C:\Users\bloom\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpktX4UK\downloaded_packages Message d'avis : packages ?quantstrat?, ?RBloomberg?, ?rsproxy?, ?VaR? are not available (for R version 2.15.1) R version 2.15.1 System : Windows 7 (64 bits) Any help appreciated Thx -- View this message

Hi folks, Debian 600 64bit desktop > sudo R Password: > install.packages("RBloomberg", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") .... .... * DONE (zoo) ERROR: dependencies ?rcom?, ?bitops?, ?RUnit? are not available for package ?RBloomberg? * removing ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RBloomberg? Failed > install.packages("RBloomberg", "rcom",

Yes...And the dependent package is RDCOMClient. I was using R 2.2.0...The downloading process was smooth...But not in R 2.4.0...why is this so? Could you reply me ASAP? -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:27 PM To: Shubha Karanth Cc: r-help at

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.

Dear R Users, Tried to install RBloomberg with R-2.12.0 and appears RDComclient has not been built for this version of R, so failed. I then tried to get RBloombergs' Java API version to work, but ran into problems with RJava which does not appear to exist for Windows. My platform is Windows XP SP3. Will RDcomclient be built for R-2.12.0 anytime soon ? Does a version of RBloomberh with a

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