getMultipleTicks: Get Multiple Ticks from Bloomberg
In Rblpapi: R Interface to 'Bloomberg'

getMultipleTicks

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Get Multiple Ticks from Bloomberg

Description

This function uses the Bloomberg API to retrieve multiple ticks for the requested security.

Usage

getMultipleTicks(security, eventType = c("TRADE", "BID", "ASK"),
  startTime = Sys.time() - 60 * 60, endTime = Sys.time(), verbose = FALSE,
  returnAs = getOption("blpType", "data.frame"), tz = Sys.getenv("TZ", unset
  = "UTC"), con = defaultConnection())

Arguments

`security`	A character variable describing a valid security ticker
`eventType`	A character vector describing event types, default is `c("TRADE", "BID", "ASK")`
`startTime`	A Datetime object with the start time, defaults to one hour before current time
`endTime`	A Datetime object with the end time, defaults to current time
`verbose`	A boolean indicating whether verbose operation is desired, defaults to ‘FALSE’
`returnAs`	A character variable describing the type of return object; currently supported are ‘data.frame’ (also the default) and ‘data.table’
`tz`	A character variable with the desired local timezone, defaulting to the value ‘TZ’ environment variable, and ‘UTC’ if unset
`con`	A connection object as created by a `blpConnect` call, and retrieved via the internal function `defaultConnection`.