[R] Rbbg usurped ?

[John Laing]

I've cleaned up the findata repository, you should now be able to install
Rbbg as expected.

But that said, the package is no longer being actively developed. Recent
efforts have been taking place in the Rblpapi package. The interface is
similar, though not strictly compatible. If you're doing much work with
Bloomberg data I recommend you check it out.

JL

On Dec 28, 2016 5:39 AM, "Sarah Goslee" <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you actually visit that link, you will see that the directory structure
> isn't laid out in the way that install.packages() currently expects for a
> repo, but that you can still download the package yourself, and presumably
> install it from local file.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:41 AM Tolga Uzuner <tolga at coubros.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear R users,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have some old code that was using Rbbg, which no longer appears to be
> >
> > working.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried to download Rbbg using the line:
> >
> > install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
> >
> >
> >
> > in R version 3.3.2 on a Windows 10 machine and got the following error:
> >
> >
> >
> >  > install.packages("Rbbg", repos = "http://r.findata.org")
> >
> > Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Tolga/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
> >
> > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> >
> > Warning: unable to access index for repository
> >
> > http://r.findata.org/src/contrib:
> >
> >    cannot open URL 'http://r.findata.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
> >
> > Warning: unable to access index for repository
> >
> > http://r.findata.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.3:
> >
> >    cannot open URL 'http://r.findata.org/bin/
> windows/contrib/3.3/PACKAGES'
> >
> > Warning message:
> >
> > package ‘Rbbg’ is not available (for R version 3.3.2)
> >
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is Rbbg no longer supported ? Has it been usurped by something else ?
> >
> > Does this mean I have to rewrite code or is the new package compatible
> >
> > with code written for Rbbg ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
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