[R-SIG-Finance] About RBloomberg

[Brian G. Peterson]

On 11/13/2010 09:16 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> RBloomberg is completely new to me.  Can it be installed and run on Linux?
> On
> http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rbloomberg
>
> Operating System: Windows
>
> But the package :RBloomberg_0.1-11.tar.gz
>
> it is Linux/Unix format.
>
> For Windows OS please advise whether it runs on Win7 64bit?
>
> Is there a package for Linux?  TIA

Bloomberg is a windows-only application.

Thus RBloomberg is also Windows-only, since it uses the Bloomberg Java 
API on the local machine on which the Bloomberg client is installed.

Many people have had luck running Bloomberg under a Windows virtual 
machine on Mac or Linux, and running RBloomberg and R on that virtual 
machine as well.

With sockets, shared files, web services, or other methods, you can 
control the R instance (and thus RBloomberg) that is running on your 
Windows virtual machine if necessary.  You may need a more expensive 
Bloomberg license for this 'remote' access to be allowed under your 
contract with Bloomberg.

Regards,

   - Brian

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