[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg

[Eric Owiesny]

David,

Thank you for the help.  It seemed likely to me that it's on Bloomberg's 
end as well.  I've made a wrapper to retry if it fails.  Sorry, I should 
have been more specific before.  Essentially it seems that the 
connection object ceases to work after some point.  It's an intermittent 
problem and occurs when there is data for the ticker and the time 
range.  If I reinitialize the connection object then it will usually 
work again.  It also seems to be worse during the day so it may be a 
load issue on their end.  Sorry for the lack of complete information, 
but I'm not entirely sure what the error is.    The wrapper should be 
fine, but I wanted to check to see if it was just me misusing something.

Thanks,
Eric Owiesny

davidr at rhotrading.com wrote:
> Eric,
>
> As no-one's jumped on this, I will give it a go.
> Bloomberg's bbcomm.exe is notoriously flakey, sometimes returning
> nothing but pretending to have answered your request.
> About all I can suggest is to wrap your calls in try-catch and retry
> once.
> Either bbcomm.exe was at fault, in which case the second call should
> succeed, or
> there is no data for the ticker and time range you are requesting, in
> which case,
> you just go to the next ticker or time range.
>
> I'm pretty sure this is not RBloomberg's fault.
>
> HTH,
> David L. Reiner, PhD
> Head Quant
> Rho Trading Securities, LLC
>
> p.s. I'm just guessing, because you really haven't given us much
> information.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Eric
> Owiesny
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 7:51 AM
> To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been having some trouble with having the connection to Bloomberg 
> fail after a while.  I've been using RBloomberg and wrote a simple 
> function that downloads intraday data to write it to a file.  This works
>
> fine for a while, but will periodically give me an error saying:
>
> Error in substr(text, first, last) : invalid Substring argument(s)
>
> If I restart the function, it will work again.  I was wondering if 
> anyone else had this problem or knew what was going on.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric Owiesny
>
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