Thank you Brian,

I wasn't sure of this (thinking perhaps it has been created and I wasn't
aware). Thank yo ufor confirming thisto me. Ralph Vince


On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian@braverock.com>wrote:

> On 09/02/2013 10:21 AM, Ralph Vince wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to obtain data for certain South African stocks through the
>> Bloomberg site, like:
>>
>> http://www.bloomberg.com/**quote/ASR:SJ<http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ASR:SJ>
>>
>> and am wondering if there is not an api available much like there is with
>> yahoo or google that anyone is aware of.
>>
>
> Ralph,
>
> There is, to the best of my knowledge, no way to download historical data
> from the Bloomberg website.  These 'Download' links are the hooks taken
> advantage of by the getSymbols methods for Yahoo, Google, the Fed, and
> other data sources.
>
> There is of course the 'Rbbg' (formerly RBloomberg) package which can
> extract information from a Bloomberg terminal, if you have one handy.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
>
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