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Rbbg usurped ?

5 messages · Tolga Uzuner, Sarah Goslee, John Laing +1 more

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Tolga Uzuner
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Dear R users,

I have some old code that was using Rbbg, which no longer appears to be 
working.

I tried to download Rbbg using the line:
install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")

in R version 3.3.2 on a Windows 10 machine and got the following error:

 > install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
Installing package into ?C:/Users/Tolga/Documents/R/win-library/3.3?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository 
http://r.findata.org/src/contrib:
   cannot open URL 'http://r.findata.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Warning: unable to access index for repository 
http://r.findata.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3:
   cannot open URL 'http://r.findata.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/PACKAGES'
Warning message:
package ?Rbbg? is not available (for R version 3.3.2)
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Is Rbbg no longer supported ? Has it been usurped by something else ? 
Does this mean I have to rewrite code or is the new package compatible 
with code written for Rbbg ?

Thanks in advance
Sarah Goslee
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If you actually visit that link, you will see that the directory structure
isn't laid out in the way that install.packages() currently expects for a
repo, but that you can still download the package yourself, and presumably
install it from local file.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:41 AM Tolga Uzuner <tolga at coubros.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      John Laing
    

    

      
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I've cleaned up the findata repository, you should now be able to install
Rbbg as expected.

But that said, the package is no longer being actively developed. Recent
efforts have been taking place in the Rblpapi package. The interface is
similar, though not strictly compatible. If you're doing much work with
Bloomberg data I recommend you check it out.

JL

        
On Dec 28, 2016 5:39 AM, "Sarah Goslee" <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Dirk Eddelbuettel
    

    

      
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On 28 December 2016 at 13:46, John Laing wrote:

        
| I've cleaned up the findata repository, you should now be able to install
| Rbbg as expected.
| 
| But that said, the package is no longer being actively developed. Recent
| efforts have been taking place in the Rblpapi package. The interface is
| similar, though not strictly compatible. If you're doing much work with
| Bloomberg data I recommend you check it out.

Also, Rblpapi is on CRAN and installs like other packages via

    install.packages("Rblpapi")

and update.packages() relieving you from the need to go to findata.org.

Dirk

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Tolga Uzuner
    

    

      
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Many thanks John, Bush, Dirk.

Kind regards