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Holiday dates

holiday.Rd

Returns the date of a holiday.

Usage

holiday(year = getRmetricsOptions("currentYear"), Holiday = "Easter")

Arguments

Holiday

the function name (a character string or unquoted) of an ecclesiastical or public holiday in the G7 countries or Switzerland, see the list below. Can also be a character vector to specify several holidays.

year

an integer value or vector of years, formatted as YYYY.

Value

an object of class "timeDate"

Details

Easter is the central ecclesiastical holiday. Many other holidays are related to this feast. The function Easter computes the dates of Easter and related ecclesiastical holidays for the requested year vector. holiday calculates the dates of ecclesiastical or publich holidays in the G7 countries, e.g. holiday(2003, "GoodFriday"). Rmetrics contains holiday functions automatically loaded at startup time. The user can add easily additional holiday functions. The information for the holidays is collected from several web pages about holiday calendars. The following ecclesiastical and public [HOLIDAY] functions in the G7 countries and Switzerland are available:

Holidays Related to Easter:

Septuagesima, Quinquagesima, AshWednesday, PalmSunday, GoodFriday, EasterSunday, Easter, EasterMonday, RogationSunday, Ascension, Pentecost, PentecostMonday, TrinitySunday CorpusChristi.

Holidays Related to Christmas:

ChristTheKing, Advent1st, Advent1st, Advent3rd, Advent4th, ChristmasEve, ChristmasDay, BoxingDay, NewYearsDay.

Other Ecclestical Feasts:

SolemnityOfMary, Epiphany, PresentationOfLord, Annunciation, TransfigurationOfLord, AssumptionOfMary, AssumptionOfMary, BirthOfVirginMary, CelebrationOfHolyCross, MassOfArchangels, AllSaints, AllSouls.

CHZurich - Public Holidays:

CHBerchtoldsDay, CHSechselaeuten, CHAscension, CHConfederationDay, CHKnabenschiessen.

GBLondon - Public Holidays:

GBEarlyMayBankHoliday, GBSpringBankHoliday GBSummerBankHoliday, GBNewYearsEve.

(GBMayDay and GBBankHoliday have been removed. Use GBEarlyMayBankHoliday and GBSpringBankHoliday, respectively)

DEFrankfurt - Public Holidays:

DEAscension, DECorpusChristi, DEGermanUnity, DEChristmasEve, DENewYearsEve.

FRParis - Public Holidays:

FRFetDeLaVictoire1945, FRAscension, FRBastilleDay, FRAssumptionVirginMary, FRAllSaints, FRArmisticeDay.

ITMilano - Public Holidays:

ITEpiphany, ITLiberationDay, ITRepublicAnniversary, ITAssumptionOfVirginMary, ITAllSaints, ITWWIVictoryAnniversary, ITStAmrose, ITImmaculateConception.

USNewYork/USChicago - Public Holidays:

USNewYearsDay, USInaugurationDay, USMLKingsBirthday, USLincolnsBirthday, USWashingtonsBirthday, USMemorialDay, USIndependenceDay, USLaborDay, USColumbusDay, USElectionDay, USVeteransDay, USThanksgivingDay, USChristmasDay, USCPulaskisBirthday, USGoodFriday, USJuneteenthNationalIndependenceDay.

CAToronto/CAMontreal - Public Holidays:

CAVictoriaDay, CACanadaDay, CACivicProvincialHoliday, CALabourDay, CAThanksgivingDay, CaRemembranceDay.

JPTokyo/JPOsaka - Public Holidays:

JPNewYearsDay, JPGantan, JPBankHolidayJan2, JPBankHolidayJan3, JPComingOfAgeDay, JPSeijinNoHi, JPNatFoundationDay, JPKenkokuKinenNoHi, JPGreeneryDay, JPMidoriNoHi, JPConstitutionDay, JPKenpouKinenBi, JPNationHoliday, JPKokuminNoKyujitu, JPChildrensDay, JPKodomoNoHi, JPMarineDay, JPUmiNoHi, JPRespectForTheAgedDay, JPKeirouNoHi, JPAutumnalEquinox, JPShuubun-no-hi, JPHealthandSportsDay, JPTaiikuNoHi, JPNationalCultureDay, JPBunkaNoHi, JPThanksgivingDay, JPKinrouKanshaNohi, JPKinrou-kansha-no-hi, JPEmperorsBirthday, JPTennou-tanjyou-bi, JPTennou-tanjyou-bi.
JPMountainDay

See also

BoxingDay, etc., for descriptions of the individual holiday functions,

listHolidays for a list (character vector) of all holidays,

Easter,

holidayLONDON, holidayNERC, holidayNYSE, holidayTSX, holidayZURICH for holidays at major financial centers.

Examples

## holiday
# Dates for GoodFriday from 2000 until 2005:
holiday(2000:2005, "GoodFriday")                  
#> GMT
#> [1] [2000-04-21] [2001-04-13] [2002-03-29] [2003-04-18] [2004-04-09]
#> [6] [2005-03-25]
holiday(2000:2005, GoodFriday) # same (GoodFriday is a function)
#> GMT
#> [1] [2000-04-21] [2001-04-13] [2002-03-29] [2003-04-18] [2004-04-09]
#> [6] [2005-03-25]

# Good Friday and Easter
holiday(2000:2005, c("GoodFriday", "Easter"))                  
#> GMT
#>  [1] [2000-04-21] [2001-04-13] [2002-03-29] [2003-04-18] [2004-04-09]
#>  [6] [2005-03-25] [2000-04-23] [2001-04-15] [2002-03-31] [2003-04-20]
#> [11] [2004-04-11] [2005-03-27]
holiday(2000:2005, c(GoodFriday, Easter))                  
#> GMT
#>  [1] [2000-04-21] [2001-04-13] [2002-03-29] [2003-04-18] [2004-04-09]
#>  [6] [2005-03-25] [2000-04-23] [2001-04-15] [2002-03-31] [2003-04-20]
#> [11] [2004-04-11] [2005-03-27]
   
## Easter   
Easter(2000:2005)
#> GMT
#> [1] [2000-04-23] [2001-04-15] [2002-03-31] [2003-04-20] [2004-04-11]
#> [6] [2005-03-27]

## GoodFriday
GoodFriday(2000:2005)
#> GMT
#> [1] [2000-04-21] [2001-04-13] [2002-03-29] [2003-04-18] [2004-04-09]
#> [6] [2005-03-25]
Easter(2000:2005, -2) 
#> GMT
#> [1] [2000-04-21] [2001-04-13] [2002-03-29] [2003-04-18] [2004-04-09]
#> [6] [2005-03-25]