DatastreamDSWS2R Connection via Proxy - JSON error

laurent.marmy

I am connecting to DatastreamDSWS2R via a http_proxy to get past our company firewall (proxy defined in .Renviron file) and am getting the following error:

Error in rjson::fromJSON(myTokenResponse) : unexpected character '<'

Can somebody help me make sense of this mistake?
I have sofar never been able to connect to DatastreamDSWS2R via R

James.Bright1

Please raise this with the helpdesk. Including your login credentials.

laurent.marmy

hi the command that prompted this error is :

mydsws <- dsws$new()

Christiaan Meihsl

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/43065#Comment_43065

@laurent.marmy, this looks like a pure R language related query, and I am not at all familiar with R. That said, just by looking at the R documentation, that syntax does not look right to me.

Marvin

Same problem here. Could you solve the problem @laurent.marmy ? Which helpdesk should I contact, @James.Bright1 ?

Jirapongse

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/45685#Comment_45685

@Marvin

You can raise an issue through my.refinitiv.com.

laurent.marmy

Hi @Marvin, I finally managed to solved the problem by getting a proxy port from my company and defining this and my Datastream username and password in a .Renviron file like this:

http_proxy= XXX.XXX.com:9999

http_proxy_user=UNAME:PASSWORD
DatastreamUsername=DATASTREAMUSERNAME
DatastreamPassword=DATASTREAMPASSWORD

options(Datastream.Username = "DATASTREAMUSERNAME")
options(Datastream.Password = "DATASTREAMPASSWORD")