[R-SIG-Finance] About RBloomberg

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your advice.

> 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.

In this setup Bloomberg is still running on Windows OS which runs as VM/client 
on a virtual machine with Mac/Linux as host.  I have done many tests on this 
similar arrangement with Windows application running on a Windows VM/client.  It 
works seamlessly.  The latest test I did was running RExcel and R on a 64 bit 
Win7 VM/client.  RExcel is an Open Source application/package.


> You may need a more expensive Bloomberg license for this 'remote' access to be 

> allowed under your contract with Bloomberg.

That is my barrier on testing RBloomberg.  Is there a free Bloomberg server for 
testing purpose?

B.R.
Stephen L





----- Original Message ----
From: Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com>
To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 12:08:10 AM
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] About RBloomberg

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

-- Brian G. Peterson
http://braverock.com/brian/
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IM: bgpbraverock

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