connectTheDots:
Functions relating to making yield curves
Description
connectTheDots - Interpolate between points on a yield curve and return a maturity. Used for the quoted yield.curve statements.
read.yield.curve - Function to take a data.frame of columns (i,mat,t) and turn it into a market.history with yield curves
Usage
connectTheDots(mat, df, constant.max.mat = TRUE, ...)
read.yield.curve(df, drop.if.no.MMrate=FALSE, MM.mat=1/12, ...)
Arguments
df
Data.frame that contains yield curve information
constant.max.mat
Set to TRUE if you want it to return interest rates equal to the maximum maturity available if a mat is requested which exceeds the max maturity.
drop.if.no.MMrate
Whether or not to drop years with no money market rate
MM.mat
Consider times below this maturity to be money market