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fieldSearch

Search for matching data fields

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

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

`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`.

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

Dirk Eddelbuettel

## Not run: 
  head(fieldSearch("vwap"), 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