[R-SIG-Finance] RBLOOMBERG--conn=blpConnect(iface="COM") PROBLEMS
Juan José Fernández García
jjfgarcia at renta4.es
Thu May 31 14:22:15 CEST 2012
Hi Nick
Sorry, i have been out of office for two days
I tried what you suggested
conn <- blpConnect()
bdp(conn,"ES1 Index","PX_LAST")
Everything works fine and R downloaded the last price
I don't have any particular preference for the CONN interface, it is just that this code is working fine in another computer. Also I need to set up two parameters (daily data for open market days), parameters that I can set up using the function as defined in
http://rgm2.lab.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/func.php?rd_id=RBloomberg:blpConnect
but parameters that I cant use using the Java configuration
One stupid question
The functions I used in the link above require Package RBloomberg version 0.1-10
But I downloaded the RBloomberg Version 0.4-151
Could this be the problem?
Thanks for your patience and help
JJ
-----Mensaje original-----
De: r-sig-finance-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at r-project.org] En nombre de Nick
Enviado el: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 1:15 AM
Para: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
Asunto: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] RBLOOMBERG--conn=blpConnect(iface="COM") PROBLEMS
You can't simultaneously use COM and Java. Rbbg only supports Java (as has been noted).
Why do you want to use the COM interface?
Make sure you have correctly installed RBloomberg / Rbbg from findata.org
Once it is installed, make sure you have your session correctly initialized:
conn <- blpConnect()
then try a request:
bdp(conn,"ES1 Index","PX_LAST")
if that doesn't work, can you please paste any error messages?
thanks
On 05/29/2012 01:32 AM, julien cuisinier wrote:
> Juan,
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> No problem, I thik my point is that the blpConnect function does
> accept only iface="Java" as argument, hhence trying iface="COM" you
> get the error msge
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> Weird the help() does not work - did you have the RBloomberg package loaded when trying the help(blpConnect)?
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> May be you did not install the help file alongside R? If so I would recomment to do so.
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> I found this which might help, google is your friend ;-):
> http://rgm2.lab.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/func.php?rd_id=RBloomberg:blpConnect
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> HTH,
> Julien
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> From: jjfgarcia at renta4.es
> To: j_cuisinier at hotmail.com; r-sig-finance at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R-SIG-Finance] RBLOOMBERG--conn=blpConnect(iface="COM")
> PROBLEMS
> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 14:47:34 +0000
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> Julien
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> Thnkx very much. Actually the full code is this
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> blpConnect(iface="COM",
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> na.action="na", periodicity="daily")
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> I think this is the proper way to use the function (I am a R
> beginner), that's why I used it
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> When I type help(blpConnect) I get this:
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> No documentation for 'blpConnect' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try '??blpConnect'
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> I followed the manual instructions and installed Java Version 3 API,
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> rJava package and I also downloaded Jave from the Java website.
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> Thanks again
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> JJ
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> De: julien cuisinier [mailto:j_cuisinier at hotmail.com]
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> Enviado el: Monday, May 28, 2012 4:17 PM
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> Para: Juan José Fernández García; r-sig-finance at r-project.org
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> Asunto: RE: [R-SIG-Finance] RBLOOMBERG--conn=blpConnect(iface="COM")
> PROBLEMS
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> Hi,
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> when I type help(blpConnect) in R, I read this:
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> "
> Arguments
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> iface
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> character. Which Bloomberg interface? (only "Java" currently supported).
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> why do you try to give the "COM" value to iface argument?
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> "conn <- blpConnect()" you are connected as far as I know?
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> If I said something stupid, sure the package owner will contradict me
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> Rgds,
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> Julien
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> From: jjfgarcia at renta4.es
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> To: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
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> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:56:04 +0000
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> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBLOOMBERG--conn=blpConnect(iface="COM")
> PROBLEMS Dear All,
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> In the first place I would like to thank you for your contribution to R.
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> I am having this problem with Rbloomberg.
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> I followed the manual and downloaded the API from bloomberg. However,
> when I run
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> conn=blpConnect(iface="COM") I got the error message below . ¿do you know why this might happen?
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> Thanks very much
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>> library(RBloomberg)
> Loading required package: rJava
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>> conn <- blpConnect()
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
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> rJava Version 0.9-3
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> RBloomberg Version 0.4-151
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> Java environment initialized successfully.
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> Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file...
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> Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.6.6\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java
> classpath
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> Bloomberg API Version 3.4.6.6
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>> conn=blpConnect(iface="COM")
> Error en blpConnect(iface = "COM") :
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> Requsted interface COM is not valid! Valid interfaces are Java
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> SessionInfo
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> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
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> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
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> locale:
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> [1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252
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> [3] LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
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> [5] LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252
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> attached base packages:
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> [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base
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> other attached packages:
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> [1] RBloomberg_0.4-151 rJava_0.9-3 rcom_2.2-5 rscproxy_2.0-5
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> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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> [1] tools_2.15.0
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