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