title: R: Extracting multiple bids from Bloomberg
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to extract all the bids for multiple series over a certain time frame from Bloomberg using the Rbbg package.</p>
  
  <p>My code currently looks like this:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>bids = tick(conn, paste(colnames(prices), " SJ EQUITY",sep = ""), "BID", 
              "2013-11-05 07:00:00.000", "2013-11-05 14:50:00.000")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where colnames(prices) are all the shares for which I'm trying to extract the bids.<br>
  But I get the following error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Error in .jcall("RJavaTools", "Ljava/lang/Object;", "invokeMethod", cl,  : 
    java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: No suitable method for the given parameters 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I do it for one time series its fine, with the output as follows:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>time      type  value   size  
  2013-11-05T07:00:26.000 BID 26500   1000  
  2013-11-05T07:00:26.000 BID 26500   1230  
  2013-11-05T07:00:30.000 BID 26500   1347  
  2013-11-05T07:00:31.000 BID 26500   1574  
  2013-11-05T07:00:55.000 BID 26501   299
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Sorry, I tried, but I don't know how to make the columns match up in the above output.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I've been stuck for quite some time.  </p>