Alexandre,

Could you tell the list how you solved your problem? I also regularly get
the "heap size" message.

Pierre

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Alexandre CESARI <
alexandre.cesari@gmail.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> Thanks for the info. I tested a slightly different version and that
> seems to work for me. I don't know much about the BBG api but what I
> did was simply to store the last reponse rather than adding it into an
> array. Given the code, I'm not sure that caching is all that useful.
>
> Alexandre
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, John Laing <john.laing@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alexandre,
> >
> > The Java side of the Rbbg package caches all data responses during a
> > session. That's probably what's responsible for the memory issues
> > you're experiencing. This is a known bug that I haven't had a chance
> > to fix, but if you'd like to submit a patch I would happily accept.
> > The latest source is on my github at
> > http://github.com/johnlaing/blpwrapper. (I assume the "old fork" you
> > refer to is Jeff Davis's version, tweaked to work on Linux.)
> >
> > The findata.org site hosts Windows binaries, so you should not specify
> > type = "source" from within R. This works just fine:
> > install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
> >
> > -John
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Alexandre CESARI
> > <alexandre.cesari@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have been getting out of memory errors with RBloomberg and now Rbbg.
> >> I'd like to manually fix the package but I cannot get my hand on the
> >> source code, except on an old fork found on github. Could someone
> >> point me where I can the latest source? Standard package download
> >> within R with type source is not working and findata.org seems to be
> >> dead following the package name change.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Alexandre
> >>
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