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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi, folks.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">First, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the many people on this list who have contributed so much to R.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I've been using RBloomberg happily for a few weeks now. Today, with no change in my environment that I'm aware of, I've encountered a strange error.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The following self-contained example reproduces the error at will in my environment ...</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">library(RBloomberg)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">conn<-blpConnect()</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">d81<-"2011-11-01"</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">sTime<-"00:00:00.000"</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">eTime<-"23:59:00.000"</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">barLen<-"60"</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"># works ...</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">bar(conn, "TD CN Equity", "BID", paste(d81,sTime), paste(d81,eTime), barLen)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"># change date ...</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">d81<-"2011-06-01"</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"># Error in process.result(result, "first.column") : subscript out of bounds ...</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">bar(conn, "TD CN Equity", "BID", paste(d81,sTime), paste(d81,eTime), barLen)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">> sessionInfo()</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">locale:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">attached base packages:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">other attached packages:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[1] RBloomberg_0.4-150 rJava_0.9-2 </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">loaded via a namespace (and not attached):</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">[1] tools_2.13.1</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Any help would be greatly appreciated. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Scott</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#707070" face="Arial"><b>Scott Lyden</b></font><font size="1" color="#707070" face="Arial"><br>
Global Trading Research<br>
Instinet<br>
San Francisco, CA USA</font><br>
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