Thank you, John.

I went through the Bloomberg document as suggested by Ana, and it's all
there. I simply had to define the input type like follows:

bbdata_1=bdp(bb,"*/cusip/*00081TAB","RTG MOODY")
This should work with all CUSIPs, which is perfect for my purposes.

Ben
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM, John Laing <john.laing@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Bloomberg can sometimes be very picky about strange things. Can you
> use CUSIPs to look up your bonds? The call would look like this:
>
> bdp(bb, "12345ABC6 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
>
> Hope that helps,
> John
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Ben Hurh <benhurh@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I also had trouble getting RBloomberg to work, so I tried several
> different
> > versions of R. This was the winnign combination:
> > *
> > R 2.12.2 (from CRAN)
> > rJava 0.8-8 (simple install.packages("rJava") once R 2.12.2 is
> > installed/running)
> > RBloomberg (from findata)*
> >
> > Now,
> >
> > /My Question:/  Does anyone know of any other methods of input for
> > securities? I am working mostly with bonds, and there are a few
> > inconsistencies, for example:
> >
> > bdp(bb,"AES 8 10/15/17 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
> >
> > ^call for AES bond with 8% coupon and 10/15/17 maturity works, however:
> >
> > bdp(bb,"AES 9 3/4 04/15/16 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
> >
> > ^call for AES bond with 9.75 % coup with 04/15/16 maturity does not work,
> > while:
> >
> > bdp(bb,"AES 9 3/404/15/16 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
> >
> > ^call for same bond--but with no space between coupon and
> maturity--works.
> >
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