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Rblpapi (version 0.3.15)

bsrch: Run 'Bloomberg SRCH' Queries

Description

This function uses the Bloomberg API to retrieve 'bsrcb' (Bloomberg SRCH Data) queries

Usage

bsrch(domain, limit = "", verbose = FALSE, con = defaultConnection())

Value

A data frame object with the requested SRCH data.

Arguments

domain

A character string with the name of the domain to execute. It can be a user defined SRCH screen, commodity screen or one of the variety of Bloomberg examples. All domains are in the format <domain>:<search_name>.

limit

A character string containing a value by which to limit the search length -- NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

verbose

A boolean indicating whether verbose operation is desired, defaults to ‘FALSE’.

con

A connection object as created by a blpConnect call, and retrieved via the internal function defaultConnection.

Author

Morgan Williams and Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

Run this code
if (FALSE) {
head(bsrch("FI:SRCHEX.@CLOSUB"), 20)
}

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