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bsrch

Run 'Bloomberg SRCH' Queries

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

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

`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`.

A data frame object with the requested SRCH data.

Morgan Williams and Dirk Eddelbuettel

## Not run: 
head(bsrch("COMDTY:NGFLOW"), 20)
head(bsrch("COMDTY:VESSEL"), 20)

## End(Not run)

R Interface to 'Bloomberg'

v0.3.11

file LICENSE

Authors

Whit Armstrong, Dirk Eddelbuettel and John Laing

Initial release

2021-04-20