[R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Shubha Karanth
Hi R-Experts, I'm currently using R 2.4.0 in Windows XP. I'm trying to download data from Bloomberg using the package RBloomberg, but it fails to install the three needed packages zoo, chron and 'Rbloomberg. Moreover I am not able to find RBloomberg package as windows binary in CRAN site as

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Never used it but if you look down the check list on Windows: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html for RBloomberg we see it has an error in attempting to access one of its dependent packages. See if building it yourself or going back to R 2.3.1 helps. On

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
The RDCOMClient is available from a different repository http://www.omegahat.org/R You can include it in the list of repositories being searched on Windows using the Packages menu in the R GUI and then select the entry Select repositories and include Omegahat in the selection. Or just install

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
... Please help me ASAP... Thanks in advance.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duncan Temple Lang Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:00 PM To: Gabor Grothendieck Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Shubha Karanth Subject: Re: [R] RBloomberg

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
, November 16, 2006 8:00 PM To: Gabor Grothendieck Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Shubha Karanth Subject: Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem The RDCOMClient is available from a different repository http://www.omegahat.org/R You can include it in the list of repositories being searched

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Subject: Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem I guess the CRAN build process does not look for dependencies that are not on CRAN? Don't know why this worked in older versions of R. Maybe CRAN did not check dependencies back then? On 11/16/06, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Message- From: Duncan Temple Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:22 PM To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Cc: Gabor Grothendieck; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Shubha Karanth Subject: Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote: Hello Experts

Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem

2006-11-16 Thread davidr
Vishwanath Karanth Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:10 AM To: Duncan Temple Lang; Gabor Grothendieck Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] RBloomberg Package Problem Yes...just now I tried it in my Bloomberg machine and yupp it is working... Thank you so much on this... But this works on any R