[R] [R-SIG-Finance] Problem with RBloomberg (not the usual one)

[Sergey Goriatchev]

Hi, Kent

Thank you for that!
I'll pass the info to our systems administrator, he is the only one
who is allowed to do things like that.

Have a nice weekend!

Best,
Serge

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 15:32, Voss, Kent <VOSSK at kochind.com> wrote:
> Sergey,
>
> Sorry I missed your post earlier.  I had this same problem and I reinstalled the DDE Server and Excel Add-In, rebooted and it fixed it.  I thought they were already installed as I could pull down data in Excel from Bloomberg, but reinstalling them fixed my R problem.  You can find the downloads at http://about.bloomberg.com/contact_softwaresupport_upgr.html
>
> Good luck.
>
> Kent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergey Goriatchev [mailto:sergeyg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:54 AM
> To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Problem with RBloomberg (not the usual one)
>
> Hello, again, everyone
>
> I went through the code and narrowed down the problem
>
> in blpConnect:
> COMCreate("Bloomberg.Data.1") which then calls getCOMInstance does not work, because
> getCLSID("Bloomberg.Data.1") returns
> "Fehler: Invalid class string"
>
> What is this problem???
>
> Best,
> Sergey
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:16, Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, everyone!
>>
>> I have a problem with RBloomberg and this is not the usual "no
>> administrator rights" problem.
>>
>> I have R 2.7.2, RBloomberg 0.1-10, RDCOMclient 0.92-0
>>
>> RDCOMClient, chron, zoo, stats: these packages load OK.
>>
>> Then, trying to connect, I get following error message:
>>
>>
>>  conn <- blpConnect(show.days="week", na.action="previous.days",
>> periodicity="daily")
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In getCOMInstance(name, force = TRUE, silent = TRUE) :
>>  Couldn't get clsid from the string
>> 2: In blpConnect(show.days = "week", na.action = "previous.days",
>> periodicity = "daily") :
>>  Seems like this is not a Bloomberg Workstation:  Error : Invalid
>> class string
>>
>> Anyone encountered this problem?
>> What is wrong and how can I solve it?
>>
>> Online, I found just one instance of this problem discussed, and it
>> was in Chinese:
>>
>> http://cos.name/bbs/read.php?tid=12821&fpage=3
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Sergey
>>
>
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