Hi Sergey, Is this what you need?
unlist(blpGetData(conn, c("ED1 COMDTY","GC1 COMDTY","TY1 COMDTY","SP1
COMDTY"),"FUT_CUR_GEN_TICKER", retval="raw")) [1] "EDH9" "GCJ9" "TYH9" "SPH9" The use of retval="raw" is a work-around as this is a bug. The bug is fixed in the beta 0.2 version on r-forge http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rbloomberg/ blp(c("ED1 COMDTY","GC1 COMDTY","TY1 COMDTY","SP1 COMDTY"), "FUT_CUR_GEN_TICKER") FUT_CUR_GEN_TICKER ED1 COMDTY EDH9 GC1 COMDTY GCJ9 TY1 COMDTY TYH9 SP1 COMDTY SPH9 Cheers, Robert -----Original Message----- From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Sergey Goriatchev Sent: 13 March 2009 07:44 To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] RBloomberg: loading Futures Tickers: how? Hello, everyone I've been using RBloomberg extensively, but I've only been downloading price information. I've been using zoo objects for that purpose. Now, I need to load futures tickers (mnemonic is: "FUT_CUR_GEN_TICKER"). As it is not numeric, I cannot use zoo, unfortunately. Also, I decided to separate prices from futures tickers into two blpGetData runs. I have discovered that specifying "matrix" or "data.frame" does not work for loading tickers either. I get an error message: "In as.matrix.BlpCOMReturn(BLP): NAs are introduced by coersion". Only retval="raw" works, but then I get a huge list, which I do not know how to turn into a matrix properly. Anyone has any suggestions regarding this issue of getting non-numeric data from Bloomberg? What I need in the end is to do analysis on both futures price data and on corresponding tickers data (for futures rolling). Best, Sergey -- I'm not young enough to know everything. /Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. /Oscar Wilde When you are finished changing, you're finished. /Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. /Benjamin Franklin Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. /George Patten _______________________________________________ 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.