IBrokers Package: wrong Clientid returns ?

Hi, I realize it has been a while, but essentially the problem is that the
recent versions of the IB API (i.e. as per TWS build 9493) do require api
clients to identify themselves with at least client-version63.  Now, the
last I have seen of the IBrokers package however uses client-version47 or
49 which is why there are problems when R clients connect. i.e. they may
not be assigned the clientId that they were requesting from the server,
etc. etc.

One way to fix this is to update the 'IBrokers' package. But I am not sure
who the maintainer is at the moment.

A workaround that I have found works reasonably well for me, is to include
the following file into your R code, right after loading the 'IBrokers'
package. You can download it from my repository here:

https://github.com/censix/INTRADAY-PartAB/blob/master/INTRADAY-PartA/__IBapi-clientVer63-v002.r

i.e. do something like

*library(IBrokers)*
*source("__IBapi-clientVer63-v002.r")*

The file re-implements  some of the outdated IBrokers() function and
overwrites them. A word of warning however!  This is only a PARTIAL IB api
implementation. Only the most basic ordertypes have been implemented, so
only use this if you know what you are doing.

Regards

Soren



On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:38 AM, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:

I use stable version. I tried latest beta too, didn't help.
Indeed downgrade fixed clientid problem but my main problem (
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TWSAPI/conversations/messages/33071 )
,  event handler returns garbled data persists, instead of correct 2100
error I still get :

paraml[[1]]= -1
paraml[[2]]= NA
paraml[[3]]= PF1
paraml[[4]]= API client has been unsubscribed from account data..NA

I guess I need to contact IBrokers maintainer , I can't think of what else
to do .
best
ce

-----Original Message-----
From: "cen six" [censix0 at gmail.com]
Date: 01/21/2015 11:24 AM
To: "ce" <zadig_1 at excite.com>
CC: "r-sig-finance at r-project.org" <r-sig-finance at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] IBrokers Package: wrong Clientid returns ?

Well, for sure a downgrade of the TWS would fix it, but its obviously not
a long term solution. Are you using a beta TWS version or a stable release ?


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:07 AM, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:

I downgraded IBrokers version to 0.9-10, while keeping TWS Build 948.3c,
Jan 5, 2015 5:12:23 PM ,
still I got the wrong clientid from TWS.

Then I downgraded TWS to  Build 945.2b, Jun 3, 2014 11:11:57 AM and it
worked correctly with IBrokers 0.9-10

I see my clientid 96 is returned from TWS :

TWS OpenOrder: orderId=2 clientId=96 conId=14321015 symbol=GBP
status=Filled


-----Original Message-----
From: "ce" [zadig_1 at excite.com]
Date: 01/20/2015 07:52 PM
To: censix0 at gmail.com
CC: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] IBrokers Package: wrong Clientid returns ?


Hi Cen six,

I am using IBrokers 0.9.12 from cran r web site.
In fact I was testing the demo program from you emailed me. It was working
fine but one or two weeks ago event handler started to fail ( maybe after
IBrokers update )  as I explained in :
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TWSAPI/conversations/messages/33071

then I upgraded TWS but now clientid returned by event handler is wrong.
Maybe I should downgrade IBrokers or TWS ?

ce


-----Original Message-----
From: "cen six" [censix0 at gmail.com]
Date: 01/20/2015 03:04 PM
To: "ce" <zadig_1 at excite.com>
CC: "r-sig-finance at r-project.org" <r-sig-finance at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] IBrokers Package: wrong Clientid returns ?

Are you using the IBrokers package version 0.9-10  or higher ? (from
code.google.com)


cheers


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:38 AM, ce <zadig_1 at excite.com> wrote:

Dear all,

I just upgraded TWS to Build 948.3c, Jan 5, 2015 5:12:23 PM
My program that worked fine before started to return wrong clientid . I
set client ID to 96. but after sending the order, In order status , or
order execution events I get clientid 6  !!  Even I tried to set Master API
Client ID to 96 in TWS -> Configuration -> API.  didnt work.
If I set Clientid to 6,  TWS returns 0 as Clientid.

Here is some piece of code :

ibClientId <- 96


#global: create the connection to IB  (this can probably not be stored

anywhere, so

#we have to recreate it within "IBexecuteStrategy.r"
ibConnection<-NULL
if (!is.twsConnection(ibConnection)) {

+    ibConnection<- twsConnect(clientId=ibClientId, host="localhost",
+                                       port=7496, verbose=TRUE,
+                                       timeout=15, filename=NULL)
+ }

print(ibConnection)

<twsConnection,96 @ 20150119 20:25:19 EST, nextId=4>

TWS OpenOrder: orderId=3 clientId=6 conId=12087807 symbol=EUR
status=Submitted

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