If you need a realtime feed for an app running on a non-windows machine, you probably need to purchase sapi/b-pipe or one of their other offerings.
If you want to run a linux vm on the same physical hardware, or a windows vm inside a linux env, that will work, but I'm offering no legal advice as to whether BBG is ok with that. It is possible to run Rbbg on a linux machine. We are a sapi client, so I know this works (the api is the same). It's possible that the public github repo is a few commits behind the version we run. Perhaps John can chime in on this on Monday. I'll work on a Rpp module port of the c++ api in a few days. For the real-time bit, BBG also hase a nodejs offering, or you can look at rzmq for pubsub. https://github.com/bloomberg/node-blpapi -Whit On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:59 PM, arnaud gaboury <[email protected]> wrote: >> I fail to see any motivation for running the Bloomberg API on a non-Windows >> machine, since the APi client needs to run on the same Windows machine as >> the Bloomberg terminal. > > I think I must maybe clarify. I am building web apps for portfolio > with all kinds of measures/simulation/reports. The main language to > compute is R. I need a data feed, right? I want one reliable and with > a lot of products quotations. R has already some package to retrive > data from Yahoo finance and many others{1]. But according to me, only > Bloomberg or SIX[2] are worth. > So my quest is a R package able to open connection to data vendor, > retrieve data and close connection. > All these things shall be OS independent and do not need any Bloomberg > terminal, am I wrong ? > > [1]http://www.r-bloggers.com/financial-data-accessible-from-r-part-iv/ > [2]http://www.six-group.com/en/home.html > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance > -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. > -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions > should go. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.
