timeDate (version 2160.95)

isBizday: Business and Holidays

Description

Tests if a date is a business day or not.

Usage

isBizday(x, holidays = holidayNYSE(), wday = 1:5)
isHoliday(x, holidays = holidayNYSE(), wday = 1:5)

Arguments

x

an object of class timeDate.

holidays

holiday dates from a holiday calendar. An object of class timeDate.

wday

Specify which days should be considered as weekdays. By default from Mondays to Fridays.

Value

• a logical vector of the same length as x indicating if a date is a business day, or a holiday, respectively.

Examples

## Dates in April, currentYear:
   currentYear = getRmetricsOptions("currentYear")
   tS = timeSequence(
      from = paste(currentYear, "-03-01", sep = ""),
      to = paste(currentYear, "-04-30", sep = ""))
   tS

## Subset Business Days at NYSE:
   holidayNYSE()
   isBizday(tS, holidayNYSE())
   tS[isBizday(tS, holidayNYSE())]