R package available for Eikon?

Is there an available R package for interfacing with Eikon? The only package I found, reikon, has limited working functionality of extracting the CLOSE fields for RICs but no option for extracting further fields and no plans for future enhancements. I see for Bloomberg there exist R packages with full functionality. Any R existing package for Eikon or are there any future development plans for the TR API group to provide such a package to the TR user community?

claudiu

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  • @claudiu Thanks for your question. The reikon package is open source but does work for sure as I have tried it. You can alter the source to access other realtime fields such as "Bid", "Ask" etc as it uses the .NET API. However, it is rather fiddly and not the experience we want for our developers. We have a new generation of web APIs which we are trying to rush to market - which are both language and OS agnostic and are designed for use in environments such as R and Python. They offer access to pretty much all content in Eikon. We plan to beta a native python version in the near future. We plan to open source the Python wrapper - so it can easily be ported to other environments such as R or Julia for example. I hope this can help you.

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