[R] Problem to establish Bloomberg connection / Package RBloomberg / function blpConnect()

Alexander Erbse ae at alpha-centauri.com
Mon Jul 9 14:23:48 CEST 2012


John,

thanks for your quick response. Here is what you requested:

java version "1.7.0_05"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 23.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

Thanks,
Alex

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: John Laing [mailto:john.laing at gmail.com] 
Gesendet: Montag, 9. Juli 2012 13:14
An: Alexander Erbse
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Betreff: Re: [R] Problem to establish Bloomberg connection / Package RBloomberg / function blpConnect()

Alexander,

I agree, this feels like a java version issue. You could start by telling us what version of Java you're running: open a command prompt and type java -verision, and reply with the output. I think any version 1.5 and up should work, but let's see what you have.

-John

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Alexander Erbse <ae at alpha-centauri.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
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> when I try to call blpConnect() in order to open a connection to the 
> Bloomberg on my machine, I receive following error message:
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> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
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> rJava Version 0.9-3
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> RBloomberg Version 0.4-150
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> Java environment initialized successfully.
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> Looking for most recent blpapi3.jar file...
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> Adding C:\blp\API\APIv3\JavaAPI\v3.4.8.1\lib\blpapi3.jar to Java 
> classpath
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> Fehler in .jnew("org/findata/blpwrapper/Connection", java.log.level) :
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>   java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class 
> file
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> It looks there is any problem with the installed java version. Has 
> anyone an idea how to solve that problem?
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> Regards,
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> Alexander Erbse
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