Create an SFTP connection to Bloomberg Data License

An sftp connection to Bloomberg Datalicense is established. On some Linux systems, this may not work out of the box, as libcurl does not natively support sftp. In that case, you need to compile curl with SFTP support. See here for details: http://askubuntu.com/questions/195545/how-to-enable-sftp-support-in-curl

RblConnect(
  user,
  pw,
  host = "dlsftp.bloomberg.com",
  port = "30206",
  protocol = "sftp",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

user	The account number assigned by Bloomberg
pw	The password assigned by Bloomberg
host	The connection host
port	The connection port
protocol	The connection protocol
verbose	logical. Should R report extra information on progress?

Value

logical. Is the connection succesful?

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# These are dummy credentials. Replace with the credentials received from Bloomberg 
RblConnect(user = 'dl000000', pw = '0000000000000000') 
}