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Hi, I am an R novice working with financial data. I am developing a portfolio strategy evaluation technique 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

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

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

Hello, everyone I have a question. Assume I have the following zoo object: me.la <- structure(c(1524.75, 1554.5, 1532.25, 1587.5, 1575.25, 1535.5, 1550, 1493.5, 1492.5, 1472.25, 1457.5, 1442.75, 1399, 1535.75, 1565.25, 1543.5, 1598.5, 1586.5, 1547, 1561.5, 1504.75, 1503.75, 1483.75, 1468.75, 1453.75, 1410, 1546.75, 1575.25, 1554, 1609, 1597.5, 1558.5, 1573, 1516.25, 1515.5, 1495, 1480, 1465,

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 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 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

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

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 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",

Dear all, I have a zoo object that has following structure: > str(bldata) zoo [1:5219, 1:12] 91.9 91.8 91.7 91.8 91.7 ... - attr(*, "index")=Classes 'dates', 'times' atomic [1:5219] 7305 7306 7307 7308 7309 ... .. ..- attr(*, "format")= chr "m/d/y" .. ..- attr(*, "origin")= Named num [1:3] 1 1 1970 .. .. ..- attr(*,

Hello list, I would like to try indexing data in a database table. While I got dbi2omega to work and print the data, I am still not sure how it all works together. What should be done to the output from dbi2omega? If for example I have a table with 5 fields 2 of which I would like to index, like so: (id primary key, title varchar(100), name varchar(100), description

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

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, What's the best way to build tables with multiple sets of column/row headings, each spanning 1 or more cols/rows, similar to the colspan/ rowspan options in HTML. I am using Sweave but couldn't find an option to do this in xtable. I can obviously build it by hand, just wanted to make sure there wasn't an easier way. Thanks.

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

Hello, Could anybody help me with this question? Example data frame NAME TICKER SHARES PERFORMANCE John ABC 100 0.05 John ABC 1000 1.5 Alice EFG 20 0.3 Paul HIJ 50 1.0 Paul JKL 60 2.0 Paul MNO 12 3.0 I would like to aggregate this dataframe by

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 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",

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