R connect to Thomson Reuters Eikon

Question

I search through the Web and did not find out a package connecting to Thomson Reuters Eikon.

It's a financial datasource, more or less similar to Bloomberg. Bloomberg is supported through R with this package:

http://findata.org/r-name-redacted/

Seems there is nothing for Reuters, but maybe I am completely wrong? Ideally I would like to connect to a Reuters terminal and scrap some information automatically from R.

Answer 1

UPDATE in 2017:
Thomson Reuters released the Eikon API (now in Beta) with a Python package. Please note that you do need a desktop-license to access the API. The information/documentation can be found on the Developer Portal. You can find an unofficial R-package on Github: https://github.com/ahmedmohamedali/eikonapir

**Disclaimer: I am currently employed by Thomson Reuters