Aidan,

Unfortunately it seems that Java 1.6 is required on Bloomberg's end. This is
incorrect in the documentation I know.

I'll be updating the documentation and adding a more helpful error message
to the code itself.

Sorry for any inconvenience. Are you able to get your Java upgraded? I know
some places use 1.5 for legacy reasons.

Regards,
Ana



On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Aidan Corcoran
<aidan.corcoran11@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I was hoping somebody might be able to help me with an error I get when
> calling blpConnect(). I followed the instructions in the manual and have
> the
> APIv3 folder in C:\blp\API, and I have Java version 1.5. I installed
> RBloomberg with the command
> install.packages("RBloomberg",repos="http://r.findata.org/")
> and loaded it
> > library(RBloomberg)
> Loading required package: rJava
>
> But when I try to run
> > conn <- blpConnect()
> I get:
> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
> rJava Version 0.8-8
> RBloomberg Version 0.4-146
> Java environment initialized successfully.
> Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file...
> Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.3.3.3\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java classpath
> *Error in .jnew("org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", java.log.level) :
>  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection
> *>
>
> (I have searched the mailing list. This error is among the problems Nacho
> ran into (
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-finance/attachments/20100715/81c069f8/attachment.pl
> ),
> but Nacho's issue appeared to relate to an older version of Java which
> could
> not be updated. I have full admin rights on my PC and Java is up to date).
>
> I am am an R newbie, so please forgive me if this problem is trivial.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Aidan
>
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