RQuantLib (version 0.3.4)

businessDaysBetween: Calendar functions from QuantLib

Description

The businessDaysBetween function evaluates two given dates in the context of the given calendar, and returns a vector that gives the number of business day between.

Usage

businessDaysBetween(calendar="TARGET", from=Sys.Date(),
to = Sys.Date() + 5, includeFirst = 1, includeLast = 0)

Arguments

calendar

A string identifying one of the supported QuantLib calendars, see Details for more

from

A vector (or scalar) of Date types.

to

A vector (or scalar) of Date types.

includeFirst

boolean that indicates whether the calculation should include the first day. Default = true

includeLast

Default = false

Value

• An named vector of number.

Details

The calendars are coming from QuantLib, and the QuantLib documentation should be consulted for details.

Currently, the following strings are recognised: TARGET (a default calendar), Canada and Canada/Settlement, Canada/TSX, Germany and Germany/FrankfurtStockExchange, Germany/Settlement, Germany/Xetra, Germany/Eurex, Italy and Italy/Settlement, Italy/Exchange, Japan, UnitedKingdom and UnitedKingdom/Settlement, UnitedKingdom/Exchange, UnitedKingdom/Metals, UnitedStates and UnitedStates/Settlement, UnitedStates/NYSE, UnitedStates/GovernmentBond, UnitedStates/NERC.

(In case of multiples entries per country, the country default is listed right after the country itself. Using the shorter form is equivalent.)

References

http://quantlib.org for details on QuantLib.

Examples

from <- as.Date("2009-04-07")
to<-as.Date("2009-04-14")
businessDaysBetween("UnitedStates", from, to)