Rbbg package's CONNECTION_FAILURE

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Hi Julien, thanks for the reply.  Using your simple command above I get the
error:

"> con.BBG<-blpConnect()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) 
rJava Version 0.9-3 
Rbbg Version 0.4-155 
Java environment initialized successfully.
Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file...
Error in blpConnect.Java("warning", NULL, TRUE, NULL, TRUE, FALSE) : 
  Can't find C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI please confirm you have Bloomberg
Version 3 Java API installed. If it's in a different location, please report
this to Rbbg package maintainer.

"

so that is why I thought I needed to specify the location of the blpapi3.jar
file but when I do (not just the path but the actual file) I get my original
error:

"> blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file="C:\\Program
Files\\Bloomberg\\bloomberg\\API\\blpapi3.jar")
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) 
rJava Version 0.9-3 
Rbbg Version 0.4-155 
Java environment initialized successfully.
Adding C:\Program Files\Bloomberg\bloomberg\API\blpapi3.jar to Java
classpath
Error in .jnew("org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", java.log.level) : 
  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/bloomberglp/blpapi/SessionOptions"



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Thanks again Julien.  The BBG isntallataion is centrally maintained from a
package by my company's IT support and so I don't really have any control
over it and Bloomberg is so essential to my work (more, even than R) that I
don't really want to reinstall any part of it.
I will alert the maintainer of this package as you suggest (John Laing?)
Thanks again and Happy Holidays!



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Thanks, John.  I found the other blpapi3.jar file and made sure I specified
that but then I got the following CONNECTION_FAILURE:

con.BBG <-
blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file="C:\\blp\\API\\APIv3\\JavaAPI\\v3.5.1.1\\lib\\blpapi3.jar")

R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) 
rJava Version 0.9-3 
Rbbg Version 0.4-155 
Java environment initialized successfully.
Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.5.1.1\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java classpath
Error in .jnew("org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", java.log.level) : 
  org.findata.blpwrapper.WrapperException: Session not started because:
CONNECTION_FAILURE


John Laing wrote

A typical Bloomberg SDK installation includes 2 blpapi3.jar files. They
are
not the same, and for use with Rbbg one is "right" and one is "wrong". On
my Windows box I have:
right file: C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.5.5\lib\blpapi3.jar
wrong file: C:\blp\API\blpapi3.jar

I don't know the details of Altaf's installation, but I imagine it looks
similar except that the root has been moved from C:\blp to C:\Program
Files\Bloomberg\bloomberg. If you can find the other jar file buried in
there you should be all set.

-John


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Nuno Ramiro <

nunoramiro@

> wrote:

Hi,

It looks like you might have a class path issue, i.e., Java is not able
to
find your WAPI jar/Java classes.

I suggest that you double check that you have a blpapi3.jar file (or
similar) under C:\Program Files\Bloomberg\bloomberg\API, as that's the
required file.

If you do, I would then suggest that you point the blpapi.jar.file
variable
to the correct jar, e.g.:

blpConnect(blpapi.jar.file="C:\\Program
Files\\Bloomberg\\bloomberg\\API\\blpapi3.jar")

Hope it helps.

Nuno


On 27 December 2012 10:35, altaf <

altaf.kassam@

> wrote:

Thanks again Julien.  The BBG isntallataion is centrally maintained

from
a

package by my company's IT support and so I don't really have any

control

over it and Bloomberg is so essential to my work (more, even than R)

that I

don't really want to reinstall any part of it.
I will alert the maintainer of this package as you suggest (John

Laing?)

Thanks again and Happy Holidays!



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