On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, John Laing <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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). I will contact Bloom office here in geneva and see what is the cost of BLOOMBERG B-PIPE. I only need the data feed, nothing else. Or maybe they may have some end-of-day/delete data subscription (?). > 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. For now, I just run $ wine emul.exe in console mode. I didn't set up any windows vm. But you are right in the idea : listen to 8194 localhost port. Btw, even if the bloom emul is a good project, it is far from being complete and I won't be able to code all my apps with only this app. So next step is either buy a bloom B-PIPE if not too expensive, or use a windows bloom terminal from some friend with Whit package. I for now just want to see how the data are exactly retrieved and in which format. I know it is chains of strings, so it wouldn't be difficult then to build time series/data frame for R. >> >> [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.
