similar to: RBloomberg - Converting international stock prices into $US

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"),

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))) :

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",

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",

Hi guys, I am using the blp() function from RBloomberg package which returns a matrix of prices with the columns corresponding to the security name and the columns to the date. When I have a look at the matrix I can see the rownames (dates) on the left of the prices but when I call the rownames() function it returns me a NULL value. It worked perfectly until I had to reinstall the RBloomberg

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) Warning message: package 'rJava' was built

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",

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, 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

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",

Installation of rcom, statconnDCOM and RBloomberg Hi folks, Win7 64bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) Perform following steps to install rcom, statconnDCOM and RBloomberg 1) rcom installation login Win7 as administrator and start R > install.packages("rcom") --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- also installing the dependency ?rscproxy? trying URL

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

I am using StatET/Eclipse successfully, but RBloomberg does not want to play ball: > conn <- blpConnect(log.level="finest") R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) rJava Version 0.9-3 RBloomberg Version 0.4-151 Java environment initialized successfully. Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file... Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.6.6\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java classpath Error in

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 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.

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",

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,

hi, I've troubles with some difftime objects. e.g. ISOdate(2001, 4, 26) - ISOdate(2001, 2, 26) - 2 works, telling me "Time difference of 57 days". But when I'd like to add days, such as ISOdate(2001, 4, 26) - ISOdate(2001, 2, 26) + 2 the function gives me an error. Function "as.COMDate.chron" of the Rbloomberg package doesn't work for that reason. I'm

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 classpath