I've updated my github for the Java-based Rbbg: https://github.com/johnlaing/blpwrapper. Whit was correct that I had a few commits locally to make the package work on Linux. It's not on the findata site yet.
As others have noted, this still does not fix your problem of needing a Bloomberg terminal on the same machine where you want to crunch numbers. IANAL, but you really should look at the licensing side of Bloomberg's data offerings (terminal and SAPI). -John On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Whit Armstrong <[email protected]>wrote: > Arnaud, > > Can you not point Rblpai to the windows server that is running the > simulator? It doesn't open a port? > > For instance, on windows, you can do something like this (after > installing socat): > start c:\blp\API\bbcomm.exe > socat TCP4-LISTEN:18194,fork TCP4:localhost:8194 > > and then if you point Rblpapi to the 18194 port of your windows > machine, you should be ok. > > Since you are running the emulator on wine, you may have to do > something different. just a thought. > > -Whit > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:25 AM, arnaud gaboury > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Rblapi built and run on R now. Of course, as I do not have any > > subscription, I can't retrieve anything. > > Thanks to the openbloom API and the emul project, I have been able to > > run the simulator.exe under Linux with wine. It works, even if it is > > very rudimentary. > > But I can't make Rblapi talk to the simulator, as they are in > > different environment. > > > > I will now go and search for a Bloom terminal, so I will retrieve some > > data with Rblapi. > > > > A great thanks to Whit Armstrong for his wonderful job. > > > > Best regards. > > _______________________________________________ > [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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ [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.
