[R-SIG-Finance] Rbbg package problem

[John Laing]

Stathis,

The blpapi.jar.file parameter is the path to the file, including the
file itself. If your file is at "C:/blp/API/blpapi3.jar", then that's
the value you should pass in.

-John

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Stathis Metsovitis <stmetsov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to use Rbbg package. but I get the following error. Does
> anybody have any suggestions? Thanks
>
>
>
>
> loc1 <- "C:/blp/API"    #this is where the blpapi3.jar file is located
>
>  con1 <- blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file=loc1)
>
>
>
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> rJava Version 0.9-3
> Rbbg Version 0.4-153
> Java environment initialized successfully.
> Adding C:/blp/API to Java classpathError in
> .jnew("org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", java.log.level) :
>   java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/bloomberglp/blpapi/SessionOptions
>
>
>
>
>
>> sessionInfo()R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> Kingdom.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] Rbbg_0.4-153 rJava_0.9-3
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.0
>
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