Thanks John.  That did the trick. I really appreciate your help.

-Harry

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM, John Laing <john.laing@gmail.com> wrote:

> You may have an old version of the Bloomberg API. You can upgrade in
> Bloomberg via WAPI<GO>, hopefully that will fix the problem.
>
> If you want to check before installing new software try calling
> blpConnect with no arguments. It will attempt to find the jar file and
> hopefully return an error rather than hang.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Harry Prabandham <harryp@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for looking into it John.   I installed 2.13.2 and I still have
> 2.9.2
> > on my machine.  RBloomberg works on 2.9.2, but doesn't work on 2.13.2.
> > Here is the info on the version that works:
> >> blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file="C:\\blp\\API\\blpapi3.jar")
> > R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> > rJava Version 0.8-2
> > RBloomberg Version 0.4-140
> > Java environment initialized successfully.
> > Bloomberg API Version 3.2.8.0
> > [1] "Java-Object{org.findata.blpwrapper.Connection@1e859c0}"
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> > i386-pc-mingw32
> > locale:
> > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] RBloomberg_0.4-140 rJava_0.8-2
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.9.2
> >
> > -Harry
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:36 AM, John Laing <john.laing@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Harry,
> >>
> >> RBloomberg works OK for me on R 2.13.2. Do you have the most recent
> >> Bloomberg API files installed? Was the package working for you on an
> >> earlier version of R and only started hanging since you upgraded?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Harry Prabandham <harryp@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I noticed that RBloomberg hangs on latest R 2.13.2. Is this a known
> >> > issue?
> >> >  Can you suggest me a version of RBloomberg that does work with
> 2.13.2.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Harry
> >> >
> >> > sessionInfo()
> >> >
> >> > R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30)
> >> > Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >> >
> >> > locale:
> >> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> >> > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> >> > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> >> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> >> > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >> >
> >> > attached base packages:
> >> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >> > [7] base
> >> >
> >> > other attached packages:
> >> > [1] RBloomberg_0.4-150 rJava_0.9-1
> >> >
> >> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >> > [1] tools_2.13.2
> >> >
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