[R-SIG-Finance] Rbbg

[Pierre-Alexandre des Mazis]

Hi,

using Rbbg is isually pretty straighforward if the path of your bloomberg files is the default one.
Confirm that you have a valid licence for bloomberg and that you are currently logged in on the same machine

Rgds


On 21 Jan 2013, at 23:52, SebastianBrown <sebastian.brown.v at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've installed Rbbg and have the latest software from Bloomberg running on
> my workstation and BBComm is running. However, when running blpconnect, I
> run into the following problem
> 
>> library(Rbbg)
> Loading required package: rJava
>> con.BBG <- blpconnect()
> Error: could not find function "blpconnect"
>> con.BBG <- blpConnect()
> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) 
> rJava Version 0.9-3 
> Rbbg Version 0.4-155 
> Java environment initialized successfully.
> Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file...
> Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.5.1.1\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java classpath
> Error in .jnew("org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", java.log.level) : 
>  org.findata.blpwrapper.WrapperException: Session not started because:
> CONNECTION_FAILURE
> 
> Any help with this would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Best,
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> 
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