About RBloomberg
Hi Brian, Thanks for your advice.
Many people have had luck running Bloomberg under a Windows virtual machine on Mac or Linux, and running RBloomberg and R on that virtual machine as well.
In this setup Bloomberg is still running on Windows OS which runs as VM/client on a virtual machine with Mac/Linux as host. I have done many tests on this similar arrangement with Windows application running on a Windows VM/client. It works seamlessly. The latest test I did was running RExcel and R on a 64 bit Win7 VM/client. RExcel is an Open Source application/package.
You may need a more expensive Bloomberg license for this 'remote' access to be
allowed under your contract with Bloomberg.
That is my barrier on testing RBloomberg. Is there a free Bloomberg server for testing purpose? B.R. Stephen L ----- Original Message ---- From: Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 12:08:10 AM Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] About RBloomberg
On 11/13/2010 09:16 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks, RBloomberg is completely new to me. Can it be installed and run on Linux? On http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rbloomberg Operating System: Windows But the package :RBloomberg_0.1-11.tar.gz it is Linux/Unix format. For Windows OS please advise whether it runs on Win7 64bit? Is there a package for Linux? TIA
Bloomberg is a windows-only application. Thus RBloomberg is also Windows-only, since it uses the Bloomberg Java API on the local machine on which the Bloomberg client is installed. Many people have had luck running Bloomberg under a Windows virtual machine on Mac or Linux, and running RBloomberg and R on that virtual machine as well. With sockets, shared files, web services, or other methods, you can control the R instance (and thus RBloomberg) that is running on your Windows virtual machine if necessary. You may need a more expensive Bloomberg license for this 'remote' access to be allowed under your contract with Bloomberg. Regards, - Brian -- Brian G. Peterson http://braverock.com/brian/ Ph: 773-459-4973 IM: bgpbraverock _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.