[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg update on "Error in dimnames(x) <- dn : 'dimnames' applied to non-array"

[John Laing]

Ben,

Bloomberg can sometimes be very picky about strange things. Can you
use CUSIPs to look up your bonds? The call would look like this:

bdp(bb, "12345ABC6 Corp", "RTG MOODY")

Hope that helps,
John

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Ben Hurh <benhurh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I also had trouble getting RBloomberg to work, so I tried several different
> versions of R. This was the winnign combination:
> *
> R 2.12.2 (from CRAN)
> rJava 0.8-8 (simple install.packages("rJava") once R 2.12.2 is
> installed/running)
> RBloomberg (from findata)*
>
> Now,
>
> /My Question:/  Does anyone know of any other methods of input for
> securities? I am working mostly with bonds, and there are a few
> inconsistencies, for example:
>
> bdp(bb,"AES 8 10/15/17 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
>
> ^call for AES bond with 8% coupon and 10/15/17 maturity works, however:
>
> bdp(bb,"AES 9 3/4 04/15/16 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
>
> ^call for AES bond with 9.75 % coup with 04/15/16 maturity does not work,
> while:
>
> bdp(bb,"AES 9 3/404/15/16 Corp", "RTG MOODY")
>
> ^call for same bond--but with no space between coupon and maturity--works.
>
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