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openholidaysR

The goal of openholidaysR is to provide dates for public and school holidays for a number of countries and their subdivisions through the ‘OpenHolidays’ API at https://www.openholidaysapi.org/en/.

Installation

You can install the development version of openholidaysR from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("jfeldhege/openholidaysR")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to get all public holidays for Germany for January 2025:

library(openholidaysR)

oh_public_holidays(country = "DE",
                   language = "DE",
                   start_date = "2025-01-01",
                   end_date = "2025-01-31")
#>                                     id  startDate    endDate   type
#> 1 27f0d8cd-76b2-47e7-89ac-a3a9f6a6b1ba 2025-01-01 2025-01-01 Public
#> 2 1c80b87d-8221-4dc2-9a1a-3b0f57dce9f5 2025-01-06 2025-01-06 Public
#>                      name regionalScope temporalScope nationwide tags
#> 1             DE, Neujahr      Regional       FullDay       TRUE    0
#> 2 DE, Heilige Drei Könige      Regional       FullDay      FALSE    0
#>                      subdivisions
#> 1                            NULL
#> 2 DE-BY, DE-BW, DE-ST, BY, BW, ST

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install.packages('openholidaysR')

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Version

0.1.0

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Maintainer

Johannes Feldhege

Last Published

November 24th, 2025

Functions in openholidaysR (0.1.0)

oh_countries

Get list of countries supported by OpenHolidays
oh_school_holidays

Get school holidays for a given country and time period
oh_languages

Get supported languages
oh_public_holidays_by_date

Get public holidays for a specific date for all countries
oh_school_holidays_by_date

Get school holidays for a specific date for all countries
openholidaysR-package

openholidaysR: Provides Access to the 'OpenHolidays' API
oh_public_holidays

Get public holidays for a given country and time period
oh_subdivisions

Get subdivisions for a given country
oh_stat_public_holidays

Reads statistical data about stored holidays