I have also had success  using this exact setup.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:44 AM, <davidr@rhotrading.com> wrote:

> Gopi,
>
> I'm not sure why you are redefining .bbfields, unless your installation
> is not in the standard place, which could cause other problems. I'm
> pretty sure Bloomberg doesn't let you install it anywhere other than
> C:/blp.
>
> I assume you tried just the library and blpConnect commands? What
> happened? It works for me, and I have the same setup as you.
>
> HTH,
> -- David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-finance-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gopi
> Goswami
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:01 AM
> To: r-sig-finance@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg :: blpConnect crash.
>
> Hi there,
>
> How are you? I'm having some issues with the following set up:
>
> WINDOWS XP
> R-2.7.2
> RBloomberg-0.1-10
> RDCOMClient-0.92-0
> zoo-1.5-4
> chron-2.3-24
>
>
> Bloomberg is installed in the machine. The following code crashes R:
>
>
> library(RBloomberg)
> .bbfields <- blpReadFields('C:\\path\\to\\blp\\API')
> conn <- blpConnect( )
>
>
> I investigated the problem using debug(blpConnect) and found out that
> the
> code dies at the following line of the blpConnect function:
>
> conn[["Timeout"]] <<- timeout;
>
>
>
> The above problem occurs whether Bloomberg is running or not, whether
> the
> market is open or not. Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> gopi.
> PhD, Statistics, 2005
> http://gopi-goswami.net/index.html
>
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