Creating a calendars

Use create.calendar with your list of holidays.

create.calendar(name='MyCalendar', holidays=holidays, weekdays=c('sunday', 'saturday'),
                adjust.from=adjust.next, adjust.to=adjust.previous)

what should be considered:

• calendar name: the calendar must be named MyCalendar. The calendar name is used in all bizdays functions to specify which calendar has to be used.
• list of holidays: the argument holidays is a vector of dates (mostly used R’s date-time objects: Date, POSIX.ct and POSIX.lt) or a character vector with and ISO formatted date ("1976-07-12").
• weekdays: weekdays to be treated as nonworking days (usually weekends).
• date adjustment: the bizdays function has from and to arguments that define the interval which the amount of days has to be computed. Once from falls in a nonworking day it is moved to the first working day after it. Similarly, to is adjusted to the first working day before this date.

Now you can call bizdays functions passing the calendar name.

is.bizday('2016-07-12', 'MyCalendar')

## [1] TRUE

following('2016-09-07', 'MyCalendar')

## [1] "2016-09-08"

bizdays('2016-07-12', '2016-10-16', 'MyCalendar')

## [1] 66

Of course you can assign the calendar to a variable directly and pass this variable to bizdays functions

cal <- create.calendar(name='MyCalendar', holidays=holidays, weekdays=c('sunday', 'saturday'),
                       adjust.from=adjust.next, adjust.to=adjust.previous)
is.bizday('2016-07-12', cal)

## [1] TRUE

But this is not expected to work that way.

Why define weekdays?

I am frequently asked Why do I have to define weekdays? or even Shouldn’t it be weekenddays instead?.

The reason I created weekdays: I want to provide a way to compute business days accordingly to any definition or satisfying any needs. In my world, the financial industry, weekends are nonworking days, but for those who work with events, for example, mondays migth be nonworking days.

weekdays defaults to NULL because I wanted the Calendar() call returned an Actual calendar.

create.calendar(name='WeekendsOnly', weekdays=c('sunday', 'saturday'))

from_dates <- '2013-01-01'
to_dates <- seq(as.Date('2013-12-31'), as.Date('2020-12-31'), by='years')
bizdays(from_dates, to_dates, 'WeekendsOnly')

## [1]  260  521  782 1043 1303 1564 1825 2087

create.calendar(name='EveryMonday', weekdays='monday')
from_dates <- '2013-01-01'
to_dates <- seq(as.Date('2013-12-31'), as.Date('2020-12-31'), by='years')
bizdays(from_dates, to_dates, 'EveryMonday')

## [1]  312  625  938 1252 1565 1877 2190 2504

create.calendar(name='Actual')
from_dates <- '2013-01-01'
to_dates <- seq(as.Date('2013-12-31'), as.Date('2020-12-31'), by='years')
bizdays(from_dates, to_dates, 'Actual')

## [1]  364  729 1094 1460 1825 2190 2555 2921