
Thank you for your feedback Brian. 
 
Sure will update the list when I have something, for the moment I have "our engineer are looking into a solution" feedback from Fatset, meaning I guess they do not have one yet but may intend to create one - it would only be in their own interest.
 
One wobbly solution is to download data Factset > Excel > VBA > R, but most certainly for small-ish data set...
 
Rgds,
Julien
 
 

 
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:34:14 -0500
> From: brian@braverock.com
> To: r-sig-finance@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] R & factset?
> 
> On 10/26/2010 08:25 AM, julien cuisinier wrote:
> > Has anyone ever heard of the possibility to download Factset Data directly into a R object? without using Factset-Excel API in between?
> >
> > Googling around, I could only find 1 unanswered post from 2003 regarding this topic...
> >
> > Any help - suggestion - pointer greatly appreciated, hope I am not missing something really obvious...
> 
> I haven't looked recently, but when I checked a couple of years ago, 
> FactSet didn't release a market data API, only the integration for MS 
> Office.
> 
> You should probably contact your Factset sales or support representative 
> and ask them for API documentation, if such exists. If you can get at a 
> DLL or other library, linking that to R should be possible, and possibly 
> even straightforward.
> 
> Please keep the list apprised of your findings to help others as they 
> look for similar solutions.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - Brian
> 
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