Rblpapi (version 0.3.8)

blpAuthenticate: Authenticate Bloomberg API access

Description

This function authenticates against the the Bloomberg API

Usage

blpAuthenticate(uuid, host = "localhost", ip.address,
  con = defaultConnection())

Arguments

uuid

A character variable with a unique user id token

host

A character variable with a hostname, defaults to 'localhost'

ip.address

An optional character variable with an IP address

con

A connection object as created by a blpConnect call, and retrieved via the internal function defaultConnection.

Value

Not sure. May just be the side effect of having the session authenticated.