[R-SIG-Finance] IB API error

[Cedrick Johnson]

The new patch is working with my setup now. Thanks Jeff!


-c


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Ryan [mailto:jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:32 AM
To: Cedrick Johnson
Cc: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] IB API error

UPDATE (for those who care):

IBrokers version with API fixes now on CRAN.
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IBrokers/index.html

Jeff

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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