[R-SIG-Finance] Formely known Rbloomberg package

[Whit Armstrong]

you need to connect to port 18194.

Look at the arguments for blpConnect, it should take a server and port
as optional args.

-Whit


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:43 AM, arnaud gaboury
<arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
> gabx at hortensia ¤➤ ~ %  socat TCP4-LISTEN:18194,fork TCP4:localhost:8194
>
> then on another console :
> gabx at hortensia ¤➤ bin/BEmuInstaller % wine Examples.exe
>
> Then on R console:
>  gabx at hortensia [R] conn <- blpConnect()
>
> 27JAN2014_14:36:46.233 11424:140271690692352 ERROR
> blpapi_platformtransporttcp.cpp:671
> blpapi.session.transporttcp.{1}.<localhost:8194> Connection failed
>
> 27JAN2014_14:36:46.233 11424:140271690692352 WARN
> blpapi_platformcontroller.cpp:371
> blpapi.session.platformcontroller.{1} Platform: 0 failed 1 consecutive
> connect attempts, stopped trying to reconnect.
> Failed to start session.
>
> It was just a first try. I maybe need to RTFM of socat.
>
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