> It seems no data is available for this security. You can use retval="raw"
> for debugging.
>
>
> > blpGetData(conn, "2600 HK Equity",
> c("BID"),start=zakres[1],end=zakres[2],barsize=0, retval="raw")
>
> [[1]]
> [[1]][[1]]
> [[1]][[1]][[1]]
> NULL
>
>
>
> [[2]]
> [[2]][[1]]
> [[2]][[1]][[1]]
> [1] "#N/A History"
>
>
>
> attr(,"num.of.date.cols")
> [1] 1
> attr(,"class")
> [1] "BlpCOMReturn"
> attr(,"securities")
> [1] "2600 HK EQUITY"
> attr(,"fields")
> [1] "BID"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Konrad Banachewicz <
>
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am using the RBloomberg package on a BB terminal to download some tick
>> data for processing in R. The end points
>> for the intervals of interest are stored in a chron object "zakres":
>>
>> *> zakres
>> [1] (10/09/09 09:55:00) (10/09/09 09:59:00) (10/09/09 10:00:00)
>> *
>> During work, I noticed some strange behavior: if I issue the following
>> command
>>
>> *dane1 <- blpGetData(conn, "VG1 Index",
>> c("BID"),start=zakres[1],end=zakres[2], barsize=0)
>> *
>> everything is fine
>>
>> *> head(dane1)
>> BID
>> (10/09/09 09:55:00) 2887
>> (10/09/09 09:55:00) 2887
>> (10/09/09 09:55:00) 2887
>> (10/09/09 09:55:00) 2887
>> (10/09/09 09:55:00) 2887
>> (10/09/09 09:55:00) 2887
>> Warning message:
>> In zoo(rval, x.index[i]) :
>> some methods for zoo objects do not work if the index entries in
>> order.by are not unique
>>
>>
>> *but if I do
>>
>> *blpGetData(conn, "2600 HK Equity",
>> c("BID"),start=zakres[1],end=zakres[2],
>> barsize=0)
>>
>> *I get
>>
>> *Error in substring(paste("0", v$day, sep = ""), first =
>> nchar(paste(v$day))) :
>> invalid substring argument(s)
>> *
>> For the sake of comparison, I tried downloading the data in the Excel data
>> wizard and it works - which means the price
>> information is there. Has anyone encountered a similiar problem? I would
>> very much appreciate any hints rg
>> solving the issue.
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Konrad *
>> *
>> --
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>> their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
>>
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>>
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