BloomR

Portable R for Bloomberg

What's new

BloomR-0.2.2-dev

• Only 64 bit
• Updated to R-3.1.0
• New functions for bulk download from CSV files tickers, from index constituents or from strings.
• Sample download to prepare script at home and test on terminal later.
• Bulk and non-bulk download of many description fields.
• bbg.* suffix is deprecated now use br.*
• A formal documentation

Manual

TODO Find in your BloomR directory the subdirectory help intended for learning and reference material.
As this is development version the help resources are not yet finalised!

Build instructions

For the impatient

Download bloomr.build.R and under R for Windows issue:

source("path\to\bloomr.build.R")
makeBloomR("path\to\workDir")

You will find your portable BloomR directory inside your workDir.

More options and requirements

A decent R version is needed 3+ (perhaps older version will do).
.Platform$OS.type == "windows". XML and Rcurl packages are needed, but if missing, the build script will try to download and install them.
R should be able to connect to the Internet.

If you want to find BloomR.zip too in your work directory use:

makeBloomR("path\to\workDir", zip = TRUE)