(con, fields, tickers, sync =, parser =, verbose = ) Arguments con The BdlConnection object containing the Bloomberg credentials fields A vector of fields, e.g. C('PXLAST', 'NAME') tickers A vector of Bloomberg tickers to be downloaded, e.g. C('SPX Index', 'IBM US Equity') sync If TRUE, the call does not return until the response file is available, or if a timeout occurs parser The parser used to convert the file into an R object. See GetDataParser for details on the default parser. Verbose Prints output if TRUE Value A list containing the downloaded data. If you use the default parser, then a dataframe is returned. More precisely, the list contains the following items: connection The BdlConnection object used to connect ot Bloomberg (R).
This contains the credentials necessary. RequestTime The time at which the request was sent to Bloomberg (R) requestFileName The name of the file that was uploaded to Bloomberg (R) replyTime The time at which the reply was downloaded from Bloomberg (R). Applies only if sync TRUE replyFileName The name of the file that was uploaded to Bloomberg (R) GetReply(parser., verbose.) A callback function to download the reply file. The paramaeters are optional and allow you to overwrite their counterparts given in the GetSnapshot call. Success TRUE if the method call was successful. In case of sync TRUE, this means that a reply file was successfully downloaded and parsed. Otherwise, it means that the request file was successfully uploaded.
BLOOMBERG SFTP CONNECTIVITY STANDARDS >>>>> // 5 Users of certain Bloomberg products, such as Data License, are allowed more per account. Files stored on BB-SFTP may be deleted on a rolling 30-day basis. BB-SFTP is a store and forward system, it does not archive files; this is the responsibility of SFTP Users. Bloomberg Professional® service for real-time data, news and analytics. The Bloomberg Server API (SAPI) offers a more straightforward approach.
See Also GetHistory, GetSnapshot Examples.