bloomberg data download to splus

gamma · July 28th, 2004, 2:35 pm

i am having problems and bloomberg guys can't help. could someone help? i use import.data.bloomberg(some arg), but i got an error msg saying that it can't find dde.

niki · July 28th, 2004, 3:25 pm

I had the same issue a while ago. Either DDE Server from bbg is not running, or you have to point Splus to the location of DDE server.

gamma · July 28th, 2004, 4:03 pm

i try to point the blp.exe manaully. it still did not fix. did you fix it after all?

niki · July 29th, 2004, 12:44 pm

by pointing to the blp, it worked then on my side.