[R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg

[krisan haria]

nice one. Thanks.

Much appreciated

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:48 PM, John Laing <john.laing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your version of RBloomberg is very old: 0.1-11. You will need to
> upgrade to the most recent release (0.4-150), which can be done like
> this:
>
> install.packages("RBloomberg",repos="http://r.findata.org/")
>
> You will also need to install rJava 0.9, which is available from CRAN.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, krisan haria <krisanharia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tried the first three lines
>>
>> Output is the following
>>
>>
>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] RBloomberg_0.1-11    chron_2.3-39         zoo_1.7-4
>> [4] RDCOMClient_0.92-0.1
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.13.1     lattice_0.19-30
>>
>> But on the last line I get the same erro msg
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> CFields_InvisibleWindow: Rgui.exe - Unable To Locate Component
>> ---------------------------
>> This application has failed to start because XLCall32.dll was not
>> found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>> ---------------------------
>> OK
>> ---------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:09 PM, John Laing <john.laing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Please run the following code and copy the results to this thread:
>>>
>>> library(RBloomberg)
>>> sessionInfo()
>>> list.files("C:\\blp\\API\\APIv3\\JavaAPI", pattern = "jar$", recursive = TRUE)
>>> conn <- blpConnect()
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:33 AM, krisan haria <krisanharia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I didnt have it, but now have it installed. But the error msg is still the same.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:48 PM, John Laing <john.laing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Krisan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have the Bloomberg Java API installed? Generally the files will
>>>>> be in C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\...
>>>>> The packages are available through the Bloomberg WAPI screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:00 AM, krisan haria <krisanharia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to use RBloomberg in R
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The version is R 2.13.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I type
>>>>>>
>>>>>> conn <- blpConnect()
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get the following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>> CFields_InvisibleWindow: Rgui.exe - Unable To Locate Component
>>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>> This application has failed to start because XLCall32.dll was not
>>>>>> found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>> OK
>>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea what is going wrong? It is the first time I've used this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Krisan
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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