Why does the columnnames reformat my brackets into dots when using DSWS??

WestWinter

So I was using's DatastreamDSWS2R's timeSeriesRequest and I had tried to retrieved some historical data for a few time series (eg XMUJ (NAV) and XMUJ (RI))

My code is:

example <- mydsws$timeSeriesRequest (instrument = df.tickers, startDate = "BDATE', endDate = sys.Date(), frequency = "D")

df.tickers being the column which contains all my tickers for DSWS to retrieve their historical time series.

So the result turned out well, except for the fact that columnnames are distorted and replaced the brackets (eg in XMUJ (NAV) into dots (XMUJ..NAV.).

Anyone knows what's the problem or is this endemic?

Thanks

Jirapongse

@WestWinter

From my finding, it calls the make.name function to create column names. If I call the make.name function with 'XMUJ (NAV)', it returns 'XMUJ..NAV.'

If you would like to change this behavior, please raise an issue in GitHub.

WestWinter

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/61841#Comment_61841

Thanks. WIll do that.

WestWinter

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/61841#Comment_61841

Wanted to ask as well, how did you find out that the timeSeriesrequest calls on the make.name function?

Jirapongse

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/61855#Comment_61855

I verified the code in GitHub.