I now have a working RBloomberg using rcom instead of RDCOMClient. If you
know how to compile an R package for windows, you can get the source from
subversion now. Otherwise, hopefully tomorrow you can just install a
pre-compiled version after tonight's batch build on r-forge. I have bumped
the version number to 0.2-1.

Again, this is not an official release of RBloomberg, it's just an
experiment to see if rcom is a viable choice.

rcom itself is GPL v2, but rcom requires that you install statconnDCOM which
is not open source and so:

1) it can not be redistributed
2) you have to put up with a splash screen for a second or two each time you
initiate a connection
3) you must cite the authors in any publication for which you used
statconnDCOM

On the other hand, statconnDCOM is free and looks like a very actively used
and developed component.

If you find issues, post here, email me directly or create a ticket at
r-forge:
http://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=145

You can install R bundled with statconnDCOM by downloading RAndFriends:
http://rcom.univie.ac.at/

Alternatively if you install the rcom package, it comes with a function
which will download and install statconnDCOM for you. Please refer to the
output when installing rcom.


Finally, this is probably not a fully backwards-compatible version of
RBloomberg. I have made some changes in date handling to simplify things,
POSIX dates are now used and chron is no longer a dependency. There are
other minor changes which may affect you, but nothing drastic. Take a look
at the examples in the runit test directory to see how things should work.
You can also run the tests to make sure things are working as they should.

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