A tif (Time Index Frequency) can usually be set
  either by code (a number) or by name.  setDefaultFrequencies
  sets particular frequencies for the tif names "weekly",
  "biweekly", "bimonthly" (also "bimonth"), "quarterly" (also "q"),
  "annual" (also "a"), and "semiannual" (also "sann").
tifList returns the map of frequency names to frequency codes.
setDefaultFrequencies(weekly     = "wmonday",
                      biweekly   = "bw1wednesday",
                      bimonthly  = "bimonthdecember",
                      quarterly  = "qdecember",
                      annual     = "anndecember",
                      semiannual = "sanndecember",
                      setup = FALSE)
tifList()A string giving the name of the particular frequency that frequency "weekly" will correspond to
Ditto for "biweekly"
Ditto for "bimonth" and "bimonthly"
Ditto for "q" and "quarterly"
Ditto for "a" and "annual"
Ditto for "sann" and "semiannual"
If TRUE, set all of the defaults, otherwise set
  only the defaults for which arguments were given.  The default is
  FALSE, but see the details
A copy of the .tifList vector.
The named vector .tifList (returned by the function of
  the same name) stored in the global enviroment contains the mapping of
  frequency names to frequency codes.  Running this function modifies
  the tifList vector and stores it back in the global environment.
  It gets run with setup = TRUE when the tis package is loaded.
  If you want different defaults, call the function sometime after that.