Tutorial on RDP

rafael01

I am a Refinitiv Workspace client with access to Datastream (DSWS), and I would like to know if there are any tutorials on the Refinitiv Data Platform (RDP) using REST to retrieve data from R. Which credentials do I need to get? Is there any R package to get data directly from Datastream and Eikon API?

Gurpreet

Hello @rafael01

Please refer to this previous discussion. Basically, DSWS and legacy Eikon API can be used with R Studio using third party libraries.

RDP is a separate product based on REST API. Since R supports REST API calls, you should be able to use it directly by importing httr module. See this tutorial on the internet for example. You will need to signup for access to RDP and get those credentials. Your LSEG account manager can help you with this.

rafael01

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/126725#Comment_126725

Thanks for your response @Gurpreet. I could not access the https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/103774Error link. Thanks for sending the tutorial link.

Gurpreet

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/126726#Comment_126726

There are third-party libraries for R. For example:

• https://github.com/GreenGrassBlueOcean/RefinitivR
• https://github.com/philaris/eikonapir

They aren't officially supported by Refinitiv.

wasin.w

Hello @rafael01

The RDP APIs tutorials (RESTful API) are available on this https://developers.lseg.com/en/api-catalog/refinitiv-data-platform/refinitiv-data-platform-apis/tutorials page. Some code is demonstrated in Python, but the logic should be the same as R.