[R-SIG-Finance] IB API error

[Jeff Ryan]

Howdy back,

The issue is that the server version returned changed from IB, and
IBrokers on CRAN hasn't kept up.  I will patch today so that the
googlecode version is fixed, and resubmit to CRAN.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Cedrick Johnson
<cedrick.johnson at chicagotrading.com> wrote:
> Howdy-
>
> Relative newbie here. I have the latest IB version (I use the JNLP
> version to access IB)...
>
> When I do the following:
> twsConnect(clientId=1, host='hostxxx', port=7496, verbose=TRUE)
>
> I accept the incoming connection attempt dialog and immediately
> afterwards, R throws this error:
>
> Error in structure(list(s, clientId = clientId, port = port,
> server.version = SERVER_VERSION,  :
>  object "SERVER_VERSION" not found
>
>
> Any ideas as to why this is happening?
>
> I've tried opentick (active account) to no avail (but that's for a
> different topic).
>
> Here's the IB version info:
>
> Build: 889.2
>
> Java version: 1.6.0_07
>
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> CJ
>
>
>
>
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Jeffrey Ryan
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