Run 'Bloomberg EQS' Queries
This function uses the Bloomberg API to retrieve 'beqs' (Bloomberg EQS Data) queries
beqs(screenName, screenType = "GLOBAL", language = "", group = "", date = NULL, verbose = FALSE, con = defaultConnection())
screenName |
A character string with the name of the screen to execute. It can be a user defined EQS screen or one of the Bloomberg Example screens on EQS |
screenType |
A character string of value PRIVATE or GLOBAL Use PRIVATE for user-defined EQS screen. Use GLOBAL for Bloomberg EQS screen. |
language |
An optional character string with the EQS language |
group |
An optional character string with the Screen folder name as defined in EQS |
date |
An optional Date object with the ‘point in time’ date of the screen to execute. |
verbose |
A boolean indicating whether verbose operation is desired, defaults to ‘FALSE’. |
con |
A connection object as created by a |
A data frame object with the date in the first column and and the requested EQS data in the remaining columns.
Rademeyer Vermaak and Dirk Eddelbuettel
## Not run:
head(beqs("Global Oil Companies YTD Return"), 20)
head(beqs("Global Oil Companies YTD Return", "GLOBAL"), 20)
head(beqs("Global Oil Companies YTD Return", "GLOBAL", "GERMAN"), 20)
head(beqs("Global Oil Companies YTD Return", "GLOBAL", "GERMAN", "GENERAL"), 20)
head(beqs("Global Oil Companies YTD Return", "GLOBAL", "ENGLISH", "GENERAL",
as.Date("2015-09-30")), 20)
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