Ok, thanks. Which developer guide are you reffering to? I have only found
the 290-pager "Bloomberg API Developer`s Guide for  New Libraries" which
does not list acceptable values (if I have not overlooked), and the field
finder (FLDS) on the terminal does not list any mnemonic called "TRADE".

Cheers,
Stig

2012/1/31 John Laing <john.laing@gmail.com>

> Stig,
>
> The Bloomberg API Developer guide lists acceptable values. They are
> not (yet) anywhere in the RBloomberg package. For tick data, you can
> request: TRADE, BID, ASK, BID_BEST, ASK_BEST, MID_PRICE, AT_TRADE,
> BEST_BID, BEST_ASK. As far as I'm aware none of these return yield.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Stig Korsnes <stigkorsnes@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is there such a thing as a list of available fields somewhere (for the
> > tick-func)?
> > I`m trying to get yields on government securities and swaps, but
> > on govies "TRADE" returns prices. I can approximate by using RISK/DUR,
> > but I was hoping there is a field that returns yields instead. "FLDS" on
> > bloomberg
> > does not help as mnemonics for realtime fields does not compute with R`s
> > "tick".
> >
> > I.e
> >> tick(pconn,c("912828RR Govt"),c("BID_YLD"),"2012-01-30
> > 15:00:00.0","2012-01-30 15:05:00.0")
> > Error in .jcall("RJavaTools", "Ljava/lang/Object;", "invokeMethod", cl,
>  :
> >  com.bloomberglp.blpapi.InvalidConversionException: Cannot convert String
> > to Enumeration
> >
> > Stig
> >
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