RBloomberg
RBloomberg handles fetching data from the Bloomberg financial data application from within R.
Documentation on this site refers to the latest development version of RBloomberg. For detailed instructions on using RBloomberg, please download the PDF Manual.
Troubleshooting & Help
Please read the help page if you are having difficulty with RBloomberg.
Installing Latest (Development) RBloomberg
To install the latest daily build of the development version of RBloomberg from this site:
install.packages("RBloomberg",repos="http://r.findata.org/")Compiling RBloomberg from Source
If you wish to compile RBloomberg as an R package yourself, you will need to download and install R Tools, and read the instructions for compiling R packages on Windows which is slightly more involved than on other platforms.
The RBloomberg source is available to download from the R-Forge project page, or by checking it out from the Bazaar repository:
bzr branch http://findata.org/code/blpwrapper