[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg :: blpConnect crash.

[davidr at rhotrading.com]

Gopi,

I'm not sure why you are redefining .bbfields, unless your installation
is not in the standard place, which could cause other problems. I'm
pretty sure Bloomberg doesn't let you install it anywhere other than
C:/blp.

I assume you tried just the library and blpConnect commands? What
happened? It works for me, and I have the same setup as you.

HTH,
-- David

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Goswami
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:01 AM
To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg :: blpConnect crash.

Hi there,

How are you? I'm having some issues with the following set up:

WINDOWS XP
R-2.7.2
RBloomberg-0.1-10
RDCOMClient-0.92-0
zoo-1.5-4
chron-2.3-24


Bloomberg is installed in the machine. The following code crashes R:


library(RBloomberg)
.bbfields <- blpReadFields('C:\\path\\to\\blp\\API')
conn <- blpConnect( )


I investigated the problem using debug(blpConnect) and found out that
the
code dies at the following line of the blpConnect function:

conn[["Timeout"]] <<- timeout;



The above problem occurs whether Bloomberg is running or not, whether
the
market is open or not. Any help would be much appreciated.



Regards,
gopi.
PhD, Statistics, 2005
http://gopi-goswami.net/index.html

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