Yes you can use override fields within RBloomberg.

The most recent version of RBloomberg, based on the Java API, is available
from findata.org and has extensive documentation.

I'm not sure how you would calculate BCountPeriods().



On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:45 AM, trb1 <thomasrbolton@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I use the following formula in excel to give the interval volatility of a
> stock, that is,
> =BDP(VOD LN equity, INTERVAL_VOLATILITY, START_DATE_OVERRIDE,
> TEXT(24/08/2010,"YYYYMMDD"),
> END_DATE_OVERRIDE, TEXT(01/09/2010,"YYYYMMDD"),
> TECH_STUDIES_PARAM1_OVERRIDE,
> BCountPeriods(24/08/2010,01/09/2010,"PER=WD","DCB=A360","CDR=US"))
>
> Is it possible to transfer this formula to RBloomberg, i.e. call the
> interval volatility of a stock in R?
>
> Thanks.
>
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