[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg Date

[Paul DeBruicker]

Hi John,

Try setting retval="raw" in your blpGetData call which will make it
skip the coercion steps and just give you what BBG returns to your
terminal in your t2 variable.  From looking at t2 you should be able
to figure out how to extract the date.  I'm not at a Bloomberg
terminal at the moment so its hard for me to be more specific than
that.

t2 <- blpGetData(conn, c("HAL Equity"), "DVD_EX_DT", retval="raw")


Paul




On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:08 PM, John Hawver <john.hawver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed RBloomberg to setup a script that pulls dividend data from
> bbg.  It works well, except on data that is supposed to be returned as a
> date.  After talking to bbg, I'm reasonably sure the data IS being returned
> to R, but it is not being cast correctly.  Anyone know how to fix or adapt
> RBloomberg?
>
> Here are examples:
>> t2 <- blpGetData(conn, c("HAL Equity"), "DVD_EX_DT")
> Warning message:
> In as.matrix.BlpCOMReturn(x) : NAs introduced by coercion
>> t2
>           DVD_EX_DT
> HAL EQUITY      <NA>
>> t3 <- blpGetData(conn, c("HAL Equity"), "DVD_SH_LAST")
>> t3
>           DVD_SH_LAST
> HAL EQUITY        0.09
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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