Dear all,

I have been trying to use RBloomberg to download tick data but am having
some issues. I am confident that my settings are probably correct because I
am able to get correct results for other types of Bloomberg data requests.
I just can NOT get the tick function working even with the examples
provided by RBloomberg manual.

Please take a look at the below R session to see details. You can also see
what versions I am using.

> conn <- blpConnect()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
rJava Version 0.9-3
Rbbg Version 0.4-153
Java environment initialized successfully.
Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file...
Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.5.5\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java classpath
Bloomberg API Version 3.4.5.5
> bdh(conn, "GOLDS Comdty", "PX_LAST", "20090101", "20090107")
#This bdh call works.
                 date PX_LAST
2009-01-01 2009-01-01  879.45
2009-01-02 2009-01-02  875.40
2009-01-05 2009-01-05  859.50
2009-01-06 2009-01-06  863.90
2009-01-07 2009-01-07  842.95

> tick(conn, "RYA ID Equity", "TRADE", "2010-09-21 09:00:00.000",
"2010-09-21 09:10:00.000")
#This tick call is provided by on Page 13 of RBloomberg manual.
Error in `colnames<-`(`*tmp*`, value = c("time", "type", "value", "size" :
  length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent

The last line above is the error.

I want to thank findata for developing and maintaining Rbbg. It has been
crucial to my daily technical life now and is the most important tool I
have in R. Please help me to figure our what is wrong with tick. Thanks!

- Chao

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