[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg hangs on blpConnect()

[John Laing]

Hi Harry,

RBloomberg works OK for me on R 2.13.2. Do you have the most recent
Bloomberg API files installed? Was the package working for you on an
earlier version of R and only started hanging since you upgraded?

Thanks,
John

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Harry Prabandham <harryp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that RBloomberg hangs on latest R 2.13.2. Is this a known issue?
>  Can you suggest me a version of RBloomberg that does work with 2.13.2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harry
>
> sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [7] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] RBloomberg_0.4-150 rJava_0.9-1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.13.2
>
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