[R-SIG-Finance] Formely known Rbloomberg package

[Whit Armstrong]

If you need a realtime feed for an app running on a non-windows
machine, you probably need to purchase sapi/b-pipe or one of their
other offerings.

If you want to run a linux vm on the same physical hardware, or a
windows vm inside a linux env, that will work, but I'm offering no
legal advice as to whether BBG is ok with that.

It is possible to run Rbbg on a linux machine.  We are a sapi client,
so I know this works (the api is the same).  It's possible that the
public github repo is a few commits behind the version we run.
Perhaps John can chime in on this on Monday.

I'll work on a Rpp module port of the c++ api in a few days.  For the
real-time bit, BBG also hase a nodejs offering, or you can look at
rzmq for pubsub.

https://github.com/bloomberg/node-blpapi

-Whit

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:59 PM, arnaud gaboury
<arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I fail to see any motivation for running the Bloomberg API on a non-Windows
>> machine, since the APi client needs to run on the same Windows machine as
>> the Bloomberg terminal.
>
> I think I must maybe clarify. I am building web apps for portfolio
> with all kinds of measures/simulation/reports. The main language to
> compute is R. I need a data feed, right? I want one reliable and with
> a lot of products quotations. R has already some package to retrive
> data from Yahoo finance and many others{1]. But according to me, only
> Bloomberg or SIX[2] are worth.
> So my quest is a R package able to open connection to data vendor,
> retrieve data and close connection.
> All these things shall be OS independent and do not need any Bloomberg
> terminal, am I wrong ?
>
> [1]http://www.r-bloggers.com/financial-data-accessible-from-r-part-iv/
> [2]http://www.six-group.com/en/home.html
>
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