[R-sig-finance] Yet another question on Bloomberg...

[David Kane]

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
 > Just use Bloomberg from Excel, and figure out a way to automate that. There
 > are numerous options via VBA, VB, Perl, Python or R itself using the two COM
 > binding kits.

This is off topic, but does anyone know of a good overview of
these sorts of issues? I am especially interested in ways of
automating Bloomberg downloads from Excel using Perl. Any pointers
would be appreciated. I have not found Bloomberg technical support to
be at all useful.

Dave Kane