For some reason they aren't building the package yet, I have posted a ticket
in the forum. They have marked the package as "stop build", probably because
the dependency wasn't availble for so long. Hopefully this will be resolved
soon.

I can email a copy of the compiled code to anyone who wants to test it. Let
me know off-list.

Only known issue so far is that I can't get Bulk data, such as full dividend
history or index membership lists.




On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Ian Coe <ICoe@connectcap.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have been keeping an eye out for the 0.2-1 release, but it appears
> that r-forge has not displayed it yet.
>
>  Has anyone else been able to install it from r-forge yet?  If so,
> would you mind sending me your steps?
>
>  When I try to install it, this is the error I get.
>
> > install.packages("RBloomberg", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package 'RBloomberg' is not available
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-finance-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ana Nelson
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:01 AM
> To: r-sig-finance@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg with rcom
>
> 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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