timeDate (version 4051.111)

firstDay: First and last days

Description

Computes the first/last day in a given month/quarter.

Usage

timeFirstDayInMonth(charvec, format = "%Y-%m-%d", zone = "", 
    FinCenter = "")
timeLastDayInMonth(charvec, format = "%Y-%m-%d", zone = "", 
    FinCenter = "")
timeFirstDayInQuarter(charvec, format = "%Y-%m-%d", zone = "", 
    FinCenter = "")
timeLastDayInQuarter(charvec, format = "%Y-%m-%d", zone = "", 
    FinCenter = "")

Value

an object of class "timeDate"

Arguments

charvec

a character vector or object from a class representing time, such as "timeDate", "POSIXlt", etc.

format

the format specification of the input character vector.

zone

the time zone or financial center where the data were recorded.

FinCenter

a character with the location of the financial center named as "continent/city".

Details

The functions timeFirstDayInMonth and timeLastDayInMonth return the first or last day, respectively, in a given month and year.

The same functionality for quarterly time horizons is provided by the functions timeFirstDayInQuarter and timeLastDayInQuarter.

If argument FinCenter is missing or the empty string and the object is from a time-date class, it is taken from slot "FinCenter" (if charvec is "timeDate") or from attribute "tzone" (if from another time-date class and not NULL). If all of this fails, FinCenter is obtained with getRmetricsOptions.

If zone is missing or the empty string, it is set to (the deduced value for) FinCenter.

See Also

trunc.timeDate,

timeFirstDayInMonth, timeLastDayInMonth, timeFirstDayInQuarter, timeLastDayInQuarter,

timeNthNdayInMonth, timeLastNdayInMonth,

timeNdayOnOrAfter, timeNdayOnOrBefore

Examples

## date as character string
charvec <- "2006-04-16"
myFinCenter <- getRmetricsOptions("myFinCenter")

## What date has the last day in a month for a given date?
timeLastDayInMonth(charvec, format = "%Y-%m-%d", 
  zone = myFinCenter, FinCenter = myFinCenter)
timeLastDayInMonth(charvec)
timeLastDayInMonth(charvec, FinCenter = "Zurich")
   
## What date has the first day in a month for a given date?
timeFirstDayInMonth(charvec)
    
## What date has the last day in a quarter for a given date?
timeLastDayInQuarter(charvec)
    
## What date has the first day in a quarter for a given date?
timeFirstDayInQuarter(charvec)