Rblpapi (version 0.3.15)

fieldSearch: Search for matching data fields

Description

This function searches for matching Bloomberg data fields given a search term.

Usage

fieldSearch(searchterm, excludeterm = NULL, con = defaultConnection())

Value

A data.frame with three columns of the id, mnenemonic and description of each match.

Arguments

searchterm

A string with the term to search for

excludeterm

Deprecated. A warning is issued if not ‘NULL’, the default

con

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

Author

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  head(fieldSearch("vwap"), 20)
}