sudden problem with RBloomberg

Do you somehow have RDCOMClient installed on R 2.10? Or are you running this
on R 2.7.2?

Can you try installing this version of RBloomberg:
install.packages("RBloomberg", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

Have you been able to run this code before, and it just suddenly stopped
working this morning?

You might try an explicit blpDisconnect before you connect a second time,
and look for error messages in the log files in C:\blp\api.

Also, try running a version of this script which just calls blpGetData with
retval="raw" and without doing anything with the result. You are doing other
things as well as talking to RBloomberg in this code, for example your
subsetting might be causing the exception, and asking for a zoo might be
part of the problem further below.


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hello everyone

I run R 2.10 (also, R 2.7.2) with RBloomberg 0.1-10
I cannot run new java-based RBloomberg due to local restrictions.

This morning I get a sudden problem with RBloomberg:

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conn <- blpConnect(show.days="week", na.action="previous.days",
periodicity="daily")

bldata <- blpGetData(conn, signal.tickers, "PX_LAST", start=start.date,
end=end.date, retval="zoo")

conn <- blpConnect(show.days="trading", na.action="previous.days",
periodicity="daily")

ty1.csize <- blpGetData(conn, ?"TY1 Comdty", "FUT_CONT_SIZE",
retval="raw")[[1]][[1]] #USD

Error: Exception occurred.

gc1.cvalue <- blpGetData(conn, "GC1 Comdty", "CONTRACT_VALUE",
start=as.chron(Sys.Date()-5), end=as.chron(Sys.Date()), retval="zoo")

Warning message:
In as.matrix.BlpCOMReturn(x) : NAs introduced by coercion

gi1.cvalue <- blpGetData(conn, "GI1 Index", ?"CONTRACT_VALUE",
start=as.chron(Sys.Date()-5), end=as.chron(Sys.Date()), retval="zoo")

Warning message:
In as.matrix.BlpCOMReturn(x) : NAs introduced by coercion

es1.cvalue <- blpGetData(conn, "ES1 Index", ?"CONTRACT_VALUE",
start=as.chron(Sys.Date()-5), end=as.chron(Sys.Date()), retval="zoo")

Warning message:
In as.matrix.BlpCOMReturn(x) : NAs introduced by coercion

blpDisconnect(conn)

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I don't know what is going on, in particular the first "Error:
Exception occured" is new to me. I tried restart R, different versions
of R, feeding line by line, nothing helps.

Anyone has an inkling what the problem is caused by?

Best,
Sergey

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