
Hi John / List,



Many thanks for keeping us posted on the below. 

When trying to install Rbbg (Or RBloomberg before name switch) It does not find the blpapi3.jar file - which in my PC after the install of the BBG SDK I have in the folder "C:\blp\API" and not into "C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI" that the package is looking in...Probably me doing something? or any way to change the folder where it looks for the .jar file?  Any feedback appreciated...


Many thanks,
Julien




Below some session infos after running the BLPSDKInstaller.EXE downloaded from BBG desktop:

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] Rbbg_0.4-153                 RBloomberg_0.4-151           rJava_0.9-3                  PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.4.4
[5] xts_0.8-6                    zoo_1.7-7                   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.15.0    lattice_0.20-6 tools_2.15.0  

> library(Rbbg)

Attaching package: ‘Rbbg’

The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:RBloomberg’:

    allBloombergTests, bar, bdh, bdp, bds, blp, blpConnect, blpConnect.Java, blpDisconnect, blpFieldInfo,
    blpGetData, convert.data.to.type, convert.to.type, field.description, process.result,
    runAllBloombergTests, tick

> 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...
Error in blpConnect.Java("warning", NULL, TRUE, NULL, TRUE) : 
  Can't find C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI please confirm you have Bloomberg Version 3 Java API installed. If it's in a different location, please report this to Rbbg package maintainer.

> setwd("C:\\blp\\API")

> getwd()
[1] "C:/blp/API"

> list.files()
 [1] "activex"               "ARDJFieldsMapping.xml" "bbapi.dll"             "bbcomm.exe"           
 [5] "bbconfig.exe"          "Bbfields.ext"          "Bbfields.ovr"          "Bbfields.tbl"         
 [9] "Bbfieldsj.tbl"         "bbloaderv3.dll"        "bbstop.exe"            "bbtstapi.exe"         
[13] "blpapi3.jar"           "blpapi3_32.dll"        "blpapi32.dll"          "blpapicom.dll"        
[17] "blpapicom2.dll"        "blpdapisup.dll"        "blpsend"               "Bny00003.ico"         
[21] "Bny00004.ico"          "Ccylist.tbl"           "cdrlist.tbl"           "dde"                  
[25] "IBESFieldMapping.tbl"  "MeterTrayTool.exe"     "Office Tools"         







> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 11:08:00 -0400
> From: john.laing@gmail.com
> To: r-sig-finance@r-project.org
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg package rename
> 
> The package formerly known as RBloomberg has been renamed Rbbg. As
> this package is not formally affiliated with or endorsed by Bloomberg,
> their lawyers have requested that we not reference the company by
> name.
> 
> The existing package will continue to work, but its binaries are no
> longer publicly available and all updates/bug fixes/new features will
> be rolled into the new package. The new Rbbg can be installed like
> this:
> install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
> 
> Apologies for any inconvenience.
> 
> -John
> 
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