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 <vo...@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:serg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:54 AM > To: r-sig-fina...@stat.math.ethz.ch; r-help@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 <serg...@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 >> > > > > -- > 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 > > > > "EMF <kochind.com>" made the following annotations. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and > intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). It must > not be disclosed to any person without proper authority. If you are not the > intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended > recipient, you are not authorized to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, > or retain this message or any part of it. > > ============================================================================== > > -- 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-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
