[R-SIG-Finance] Rblpapi package data limits?

[Jon Golenbock]

a-ha. Thank you.

for anyone interested I used bdh to get what I was after --

bdh("NGX7 Comdty", c("Open","High","Low","PX_Last"),start.date = Sys.Date()
- days(300))

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:29 AM, <chidley.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:

> bloomberg doesn't store intraday data more than 140 days. the result is
> the same for any API you use to access the data
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 5, 2017, at 14:54, Jon Golenbock <jongolenbock at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I was hoping somebody might be a regular user of this package to
> > interact with Bloomberg terminal. I've been having an issue pulling
> > historical data, it seems to cut off at a seemingly arbitrary point --
> >
> >
> > library(rRblpapi)
> > library(dplyr)
> > library(purrr)
> > library(lubridate)
> > library(magrittr)
> >
> > striplist <- c("NGK7","NGM7", "NGN7","NGQ7", "NGU7","NGV7","NGX7")
> > striplist <- paste(striplist, "Comdty")
> >
> >
> > df <- striplist %>%
> >  map(~ getBars(., barInterval = 60 *24,startTime =
> > floor_date(Sys.time(),"day") - days(300))) %>%
> >  map(~select(., times, close))
> > names(df) <- striplist
> >
> >
> > this should be producing close data for 300 days, yet you will see that
> the
> > data only goes back 140.
> >
> > Anybody run into this before, should I have expected this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jon
> >
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