timeDate (version 4041.110)

isBizday: Check if dates are business or 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)

Value

a logical vector of the same length as x

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.

Details

Returns 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, current year
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())]