Aidan,

I don't think the Bloomberg API offers such an option. However, I also
don't think that precision is a big cause of slowness. Can you send a
sample query to demonstrate your issue? E.g.:

> system.time(ty1 <- bdh(conn, "TY1 Comdty", "PX_LAST",
start_date=as.Date("1900-01-01"), end_date=Sys.Date()))
   user  system elapsed
  0.428   0.024   2.772
> dim(ty1)
[1] 7795    2


-John


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Aidan Corcoran
<aidan.corcoran11@gmail.com>wrote:

> hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to limit the precision of the data being
> downloaded via the bdh function in rbbg, in the interest of speed. I
> haven't seen any mention of such an option but thought I would ask just in
> case I missed something.
>
> thanks in advance
> Aidan
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