Identifying US holidays
To be specific, I only need to get rid of 2 NYSE holidays: Washington's Birthday and Good Friday. Is there a way to reduce the vector of NYSE holidays in timeDate by throwing out those two? Thank you! Dimitri On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
Don't know if this is sufficiently slick for this list (which never fails to impress me with quick and elegant solutions) but I would point out to you that GF is the only NYSE holiday falling in March or April so it shouldn't be hard to discard it if desired. Michael Weylandt On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
Just to clarify - I realize that "major" is subjective here. Maybe I should say "most common". But maybe there is a way for me to select from a list of all NYSE holidays and flag only some of them? Just not sure how to do it... Thanks! Dimitri On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
I am trying to identify which ones of a vector of dates are US
holidays. And, ideally, which is which. And I do not know (a-priori)
which dates those should be.
I have, for example:
?x<-seq(as.Date("2011-01-01"),as.Date("2011-12-31"),by="day")
(x)
I think chron should help me here - but maybe I am not using it properly:
library(chron)
is.holiday(chron) # Says that none of those dates are holidays
?is.holiday says: "holidays" is an object that should be listing
holidays. But I want to figure out which of my dates are US holidays
and don't want to provide a list of
Package timeDate does almost what I need:
library(timeDate)
holidayNYSE(2008:2010)
holidayNYSE()
However, I don't need all the NYSE holidays (like Good Friday). Just
the major US holidays - New Years, MLK, Memorial Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.
Is there any way to identify major US holidays?
Thanks a lot!
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Dimitri Liakhovitski
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