[R-SIG-Finance] blpConnect hangs with RBloomberg 0.4-150 on R2.13.1

[John Laing]

Hi Murali,

I don't see anything obvious that would cause this to stop working for
you on upgrade. One possibility could be that your Bloomberg API is
installed in a non-standard directory, but that's not definitely the
issue.

It might be useful to look at your Java logs. First, try increasing
the logging level like this:
conn <- blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file = 'C:/Program
Files/blp/API/blpapi3.jar', log.level = "info")

The log will be in your Java home dir (possibly the same as your
Windows home dir) named something like org.findata.blpwrapper.*.log.
We're looking for an entry like "Session Started" or "Service Started"
or something along those lines.

Thanks,
John


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:35 AM,  <Murali.Menon at avivainvestors.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I am trying to upgrade from R2.11.1 with RBloomberg 0.4-144 and rJava_0.8-6, in which setup I have no problems connecting and using Bloomberg. My Java environment is JRE 6.
>
> I see that some people have got RBloomberg 0.4-150 working under R2.13.1. It doesn't, however, for me:
>
> I am unable to establish  a connection using
>
> conn <- blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file = 'C:/Program Files/blp/API/blpapi3.jar')
>
> Inside blpConnect.Java() the "Java environment is initialized successfully", but thereafter the call tree gets stuck at .jnew() and hangs.
>
> In .jnew():
>
> o <- .External(RcreateObject, class, ..., silent = silent)
>
> is the line that hangs (class = "org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", ... = "Java-Object(WARNING)", silent = FALSE)
>
> I thought I could backtrack to rJava 0.8-8, but that build is not available for R2.13 (and rJava is missing entirely for R2.12) on the CRAN.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Do I need a newer version of Java?
>
> Can anyone point me to rJava 0.8-8 for R2.13 that I could try out instead?
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-22 r56481)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] RBloomberg_0.4-150           rJava_0.9-2      plotrix_3.2-2       PerformanceAnalytics_1.0.3.2   xts_0.8-0           zoo_1.7-2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.13.1     lattice_0.19-31
>
> Thanks,
>
> Murali
>
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