[R-SIG-Finance] Is there a way to automate Bloomberg?

[julien cuisinier]

Michael,



I really do not think this is a way you'll get anyone sympathy or help  
on this list.

Several points on your recent messages posted here:

1. you're sending to a R list a message of how to automate a process  
involving BB & Matlab....not a good idea, if you have Matlab you are  
paying the hefty fees that comes with it...hence you have access to  
their customer services which would be much better placed than this  
list to help you.

2. Bear in mind that R is free & that any help you may receive through  
this list is also free & provided by people who have their own job/ 
agenda (i.e. unlike Matlab's support, they are not sitting & paid to  
solve your problems). Hence any question asked should be as concise  
and focused as possible and you should have clearly searched  
beforehand, which was far from obvious from your recent posts...

3. Everyone on this list has a limited time capital to spend asking  
questions and not posting properly (I will not pretend it never  
happened to me...), you've been clearly dilapidating this capital of  
late. People are not there to solve your prbls and spare you some  
time, rather to try helping you on a voluntary basis if you're facing  
a blocking point in your research / development. Asking people to  
solve your Bloomberg process for uploading from Excel is none of this  
list problem. Again if you have bloomberg station you have access to  
their customer support which should be the people to answer your  
question.

4. Reacting the way you did below will definitely alienate you most of  
this list participants. You would have made some research into the   
previous posts, you would have seen Brian is quite an intensive  
contributor and often provides helpful guidance when it is properly  
asked. Again this is a free help, so you have to adapt to it no the  
other way around.

5. "if you don't add value to the discussion" >> which discussion?


Sorry for this direct tone, but as Brian said this list has a quite  
interesting high signal to noise ratio which makes all its value.
Thank you for your collaboration in keeping it this way.


Rgds,
Julien


On Feb 24, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Michael Jungle wrote:

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> PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T ASSUME PEOPLE DON'T GOOGLE.
> And please keep your volume down if you don't add value to the  
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