Just an FYI.

I've had problems when attempting to get large amount of data through
RBloomberg, specifically data from large numbers of different symbols at the
same time.  I've taken to just doing it in excel and letting it run for 10
minutes or so and then exporting to flat files and importing into R through
read.table

regards,

Mike

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Krishna Kumar <kriskumar@earthlink.net>wrote:

> I had simillar non-standard path on one of work boxes it turns out doing
> >require(RBloomberg)
> followed by
> > .bbfields <- blpReadFields(<path to bloomberg installation>)
>
> Fixed the problem.
>
> Best
> Krishna
>
>
>
> Gopi Goswami wrote:
>
>> David,
>> You guessed it right, on my machine Bloomberg is not installed in the
>> standard place, I don't know how the installed the way they did. I
>> couldn't
>> go beyond the blpConnet command to do anything useful.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the pointer, I'll try to see if the network settings is
>> the
>> source of the problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> I hope that this setup works for me as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> gopi.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Michael Sankowski <
>> michael.sankowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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