[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg :: blpConnect crash.

[Krishna Kumar]

I had simillar non-standard path on one of work boxes it turns out doing
 >require(RBloomberg)
followed by
 > .bbfields <- blpReadFields(<path to bloomberg installation>)

Fixed the problem.

Best
Krishna


Gopi Goswami wrote:
> David,
> You guessed it right, on my machine Bloomberg is not installed in the
> standard place, I don't know how the installed the way they did. I couldn't
> go beyond the blpConnet command to do anything useful.
>
>
>
> Thomas,
>
> Thanks a lot for the pointer, I'll try to see if the network settings is the
> source of the problem.
>
>
>
> Michael,
>
> I hope that this setup works for me as well.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> gopi.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Michael Sankowski <
> michael.sankowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have also had success  using this exact setup.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:44 AM, <davidr at rhotrading.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Gopi,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why you are redefining .bbfields, unless your installation
>>> is not in the standard place, which could cause other problems. I'm
>>> pretty sure Bloomberg doesn't let you install it anywhere other than
>>> C:/blp.
>>>
>>> I assume you tried just the library and blpConnect commands? What
>>> happened? It works for me, and I have the same setup as you.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> -- David
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gopi
>>> Goswami
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:01 AM
>>> To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg :: blpConnect crash.
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> How are you? I'm having some issues with the following set up:
>>>
>>> WINDOWS XP
>>> R-2.7.2
>>> RBloomberg-0.1-10
>>> RDCOMClient-0.92-0
>>> zoo-1.5-4
>>> chron-2.3-24
>>>
>>>
>>> Bloomberg is installed in the machine. The following code crashes R:
>>>
>>>
>>> library(RBloomberg)
>>> .bbfields <- blpReadFields('C:\\path\\to\\blp\\API')
>>> conn <- blpConnect( )
>>>
>>>
>>> I investigated the problem using debug(blpConnect) and found out that
>>> the
>>> code dies at the following line of the blpConnect function:
>>>
>>> conn[["Timeout"]] <<- timeout;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The above problem occurs whether Bloomberg is running or not, whether
>>> the
>>> market is open or not. Any help would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> gopi.
>>> PhD, Statistics, 2005
>>> http://gopi-goswami.net/index.html
>>>
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