RBloomberg
First of all may I thank everybody involved in creating this RBloomberg add-in, and the various R finance libraries. I am a salesperson in fixed income emerging and developed bond markets, specializing in RV, and since having "migrated" from Excel to R a few months ago, I haven't looked back. I am doing analyses which my clients - major macro hedge funds - have never seen before. This project is a real game changer for me and I owe everybody involved, bigtime. Thank you. Second - I have had some conversations with Bloomberg on their data API. The point below is correct - it cannot be redistributed - and if you produce charts with Bloomberg data you're supposed to include the source in them. There is however a Data licence, and this does allow for redistribution under certain conditions, but at high cost. Your bloomberg rep can advise because it's all turnkey and case-by-case. Finally I have a question. How difficult would it be to access Bloomberg data from a Linux or OSX platform? I'm finding Windows increasingly constraining. Tom
On 30 Aug 2011, at 15:04, Jos? Fernando Moreno Guti?rrez wrote:
On the licensing part: I am not qualified to issue any sort of official legal opinion on Bloomberg's licensing practices, so please don't take this as such. That said, Bloomberg provides API tools for people to use. RBloomberg is in many ways similar to the Excel add-in that is widely used. My understanding -- again, not official -- is that Bloomberg terminal users are free to use these tools as long as the data obtained remains with the desktop where the Bloomberg terminal resides. Using RBloomberg to populate a non-local database, for example, would likely violate your user license. You should probably not do that. On the not working part: Please provide more information on your configuration. Here is my (Windows) set-up, with working RBloomberg:
# My configuration R.version
_ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 13.1 year 2011 month 07 day 08 svn rev 56322 language R version.string R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
installed.packages()[c("rJava", "RBloomberg"), ]
Package LibPath Version Priority
rJava "rJava" "C:/R/R-2.13.1/library" "0.9-1" NA
RBloomberg "RBloomberg" "C:/R/R-2.13.1/library" "0.4-150" NA
Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances
rJava "R (>= 2.5.0), methods" NA NA NA NA
RBloomberg "rJava" NA NA "zoo" NA
OS_type License Built
rJava NA "GPL-2" "2.13.1"
RBloomberg "windows" "GPL" "2.13.1"
# Working RBloomberg library(RBloomberg)
Loading required package: rJava
conn <- blpConnect()
R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) rJava Version 0.9-1 RBloomberg Version 0.4-150 Java environment initialized successfully. Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file... Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.3.2\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java classpath Bloomberg API Version 3.4.3.2
bdp(conn, "GOOG US Equity", "PX_LAST")
PX_LAST GOOG US Equity 539.08 Thanks, John On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Jos? Fernando Moreno Guti?rrez <chpmoreno at gmail.com> wrote:
I have a question. I use R and i have a Bloomberg terminal in my job. But
I
don't Know if I can break the license accord to Bloomberg if I use Rbloomberg. Too, RBloomberg don't works in the Terminal, maybe because the proxy configuration. What are your recommendation? On 29 August 2011 10:10, John Laing <john.laing at gmail.com> wrote:
New RBloomberg builds have been posted for 32 bit R. I hope to get 64
bit builds published in the next few days.
install.packages("RBloomberg",repos="http://r.findata.org/")
This version is compatible with rJava v0.9, which should resolve the
"'dimnames' applied to non-array" error many users have been getting.
Also improved is the handling of bad securities with a connection
where throw.ticker.errors = FALSE.
Any and all feedback welcome.
Thanks,
John
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-- Jos? Fernando Moreno Guti?rrez Estudiante de Econom?a Facultad de Ciencias Econ?micas Universidad Nacional de Colombia ?A?n haciendo a un lado la inestabilidad debida a la especulaci?n, est? aquella que resulta de las caracter?sticas de la naturaleza humana?. JMK...TG
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