This function authenticates against the the Bloomberg API
blpAuthenticate(uuid, host = "localhost", ip.address,
con = defaultConnection())
A character variable with a unique user id token
A character variable with a hostname, defaults to 'localhost'
An optional character variable with an IP address
A connection object as created by a blpConnect
call, and retrieved via the internal function
defaultConnection
.
Not sure. May just be the side effect of having the session authenticated.