issues with installing of the EIKON API for R package

roman.matkovskyy
roman.matkovskyy Newcomer
in TRTH

Dear EIKON R package Team,

I have faild to install the package THAPI (Laptop Asus x64 Windows 7).

I have downgraded R to 2.15.x (I tried all of 2.15x versions), run it as the administrator, then

install.packages('RCurl'); install.packages('XML'); install.packages('base64') (by the way, they did not work ok with 2.15.x; maybe the old realeses of them are also needed?), then I tried to instal THAPI.zip (install.packages("D:/Downloads/THAPI.ZIP", repos = NULL)) and ..no way.:

Installation d(es) package(s) dans ‘D:/Documents/R/win-library/2.15’
(car ‘lib’ n'est pas spécifié)
Erreur dans read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
De plus : Message d'avis :
In read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) :
impossible d'ouvrir le fichier compressé 'THAPI.ZIP/DESCRIPTION', cause probable : 'No such file or directory'.

what could you advise, please?
Many thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Roman

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  • moragodkrit.chumsri_1
    moragodkrit.chumsri_1 LSEG
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    @roman.matkovskyy

    From the package name it's not Eikon API. Instead it should be TRTH API for request Tick Historical Data.
    Are you download the pacakge from https://developers.thomsonreuters.com/thomson-reuters-tick-history-trth/thomson-reuters-tick-history-trth-soap-api/downloads?


    Based on below description from DESCRIPTION file in THAPI.zip, it requires R version 3.1.0 Built: R 3.1.0; ; 2014-05-13 05:26:57 UTC; unix

    And

    I have a chance to try it previously, and it seems not to work if you install R library using original .zip file. However I found workaround by unpack the package and repack all files from unpacked folder to THAPI.zip again.

    Then I can load the new THAPI.zip in RStudio

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    Just try some function such as getQuota and it seems to work.

    > library("THAPI")
    Attaching package: ‘THAPI’
    The following object is masked from ‘package:base’:
        serialize
    > rdth<-createCredential("<TRTH Username>","<TRTH Password>")
    > getQuota(rdth)
    An object of class "Quota"
    Slot "type":
    An object of class "QuotaType"
    Slot "value":
    [1] "Unlimited"
    Slot "usedCash":
    [1] "0"
    Slot "totalCash":
    [1] "0"
    Slot "usedOption":
    [1] "0"
    Slot "totalOption":
    [1] "0"
    Slot "usedFuture":
    [1] "0"
    Slot "totalFuture":
    [1] "0"
    Slot "exceedable":
    [1] "true"
    >

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  • roman.matkovskyy
    roman.matkovskyy Newcomer

    @ moragodkrit

    thanks a lot for your answer. Did as you advised.

    Installed.

    Thank you.

  • mouhsine
    mouhsine Explorer

    @moragodkrit

    Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, but I have still some issues.

    I am using Microsoft R Open 3.3.0 and I installed the THAPI.zip package with no issues, but when calling library(THAPI) I get the following error

    > library(THAPI)
    Error in .mergeMethodsTable(generic, mtable, tt, attach) : 
      trying to get slot "defined" from an object of a basic class ("list") with no slots
    Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘THAPI’

    Do you have any idea on what's going on? (BTW a Microsoft R Open 3.1.0 does not exist and I would pretty much use the Microsoft R open for windows optimization purposes)

    Thanks in advance for your help.

  • moragodkrit.chumsri_1
    moragodkrit.chumsri_1 LSEG

    @mouhsine
    The R library may works with 3.1.0 only and I don't see any update version for 3.3.0. Anyway if you want R 3.1.0, I found it on the following link

    https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/3.1.0/

  • mouhsine
    mouhsine Explorer

    Thanks @moragodkrit.

    Is there any way to get hold of the source code so we can package it for recent R versions?

  • Yaphet
    Yaphet Newcomer
    https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/9118#Comment_9118
    moragodkrit.chumsri_1

    My R version is 3.3.1, but when I want to install this package, it shows Error in install.packages : type == "both" cannot be used with 'repos = NULL'

    How do I solve it, thanks

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