Thank you, John. I went through the Bloomberg document as suggested by Ana, and it's all there. I simply had to define the input type like follows:
bbdata_1=bdp(bb,"*/cusip/*00081TAB","RTG MOODY") This should work with all CUSIPs, which is perfect for my purposes. Ben On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM, John Laing <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, > > Bloomberg can sometimes be very picky about strange things. Can you > use CUSIPs to look up your bonds? The call would look like this: > > bdp(bb, "12345ABC6 Corp", "RTG MOODY") > > Hope that helps, > John > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Ben Hurh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I also had trouble getting RBloomberg to work, so I tried several > different > > versions of R. This was the winnign combination: > > * > > R 2.12.2 (from CRAN) > > rJava 0.8-8 (simple install.packages("rJava") once R 2.12.2 is > > installed/running) > > RBloomberg (from findata)* > > > > Now, > > > > /My Question:/ Does anyone know of any other methods of input for > > securities? I am working mostly with bonds, and there are a few > > inconsistencies, for example: > > > > bdp(bb,"AES 8 10/15/17 Corp", "RTG MOODY") > > > > ^call for AES bond with 8% coupon and 10/15/17 maturity works, however: > > > > bdp(bb,"AES 9 3/4 04/15/16 Corp", "RTG MOODY") > > > > ^call for AES bond with 9.75 % coup with 04/15/16 maturity does not work, > > while: > > > > bdp(bb,"AES 9 3/404/15/16 Corp", "RTG MOODY") > > > > ^call for same bond--but with no space between coupon and > maturity--works. > > > > ----- > > Ben > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/RBloomberg-update-on-Error-in-dimnames-x-dn-dimnames-applied-to-non-array-tp3660756p3713680.html > > Sent from the Rmetrics mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [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.
