Return a ti for the most recent period of the
desired frequency.
latestWeek(xTi = today())
latestMonth(xTi = today())
latestQuarter(xTi = today())
latestHalf(xTi = today())
latestYear(xTi = today())
latestQ4(xTi = today())
latestJanuary(xTi = today())
latestFebruary(xTi = today())
latestMarch(xTi = today())
latestApril(xTi = today())
latestMay(xTi = today())
latestJune(xTi = today())
latestJuly(xTi = today())
latestAugust(xTi = today())
latestSeptember(xTi = today())
latestOctober(xTi = today())
latestNovember(xTi = today())
latestDecember(xTi = today())a ti object or something that the ti()
function can turn into a ti object
All return return ti objects as described in the details.
The latest{whatever} functions are the same as the
corresponding current{whatever} functions, except that they
return the most recent completed ti of the desired frequency.
A period is considered to be completed on it last day. For example,
if today is Thursday, then latestWedweek() returns the week
that ended yesterday. Yesterday it would have returned the same week,
but the day before that (Tuesday) it would have returned the
"wwednesday" ti for the week that had ended six days before.
latestWeek returns the weekly ti for the most recently
completed week as of xTi. If the xTi is itself a
ti, the returned week is the most recently completed week as of
the last day of xTi. (Note that the default weekly frequency
is "wmonday" (Monday-ending weeks), so latestWeek always
returns "wmonday" ti's.) See
setDefaultFrequencies to change this.
All of the other latest{SomeFreq} functions work the same way,
returning the ti's for the most recently completed SomeFreq as
of the last day of xTi. The tif's (frequencies) for
latestHalf and latestQ4 are "semiannual" and
"quarterly", respectively.
latestJanuary returns the monthly ti for January of the
most recently completed January-ending year that the last day of its
argument falls into. latestFebruary returns the monthly
ti for February of the most recently completed February-ending
year that the last day of its argument falls into, and so on.