[R] Bloomberg Data Import to R

[Vivek Satsangi]

Hi Sumanta,

1. This messages is much more appropriate for the sig-finance DL
instead. Consider signing up (I read up on Amba, so I am sure you have
good contributions to make in that forum).

2. To my knowledge, there isn't a direct package. However, if you use
Bloomberg's excel plugin, just get the data into excel, save and then
bring it in "as usual". I suspect that that's what you are doing
already.

3. You may have better luck with the S-Plus plugins. I am just getting
started (an don't have any support/maintenace contract), so I don't
know what all Insightful has up its sleeve, but I talked to Carol
Wedekind about this just thing yesterday. Dr. Yollin, who also listens
in on the sig-finance list, may be able to advise you better about
what exists.

With warm regards,

Vivek

>Message: 70
>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:51:13 +0530
>From: "Sumanta Basak" <sumantab at ambaresearch.com>
>Subject: [R] Bloomberg Data Import to R
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>Hi R-Experts,

>Can anyone tell me how Bloomberg data can be directly downloaded to R?
>Is there any package?

>Sumanta Basak.