match.week.to.month: Find the month containing a week

In bsts: Bayesian Structural Time Series

Find the month containing a week

Description

Returns the index of a month, in a sequence of months, that contains a given week.

Usage

   MatchWeekToMonth(week.ending, origin.month)

Arguments

week.ending	A vector of class Date. Each entry contains the date of the last day in a week.
origin.month	A Date, giving any day in the month to use as the origin of the sequence (month 1).

Value

The index of the month matching the month containing the first day in week.ending. The origin is month 1. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that these indices correspond to legal values in a particular vector of months.

Author(s)

Steven L. Scott [e-mail]

See Also

bsts.mixed.

Examples

  origin.month <- as.Date("2011-09-01")
  week.ending <- as.Date(c("2011-10-01",   ## 1
                           "2011-10-08",   ## 2
                           "2011-12-03",   ## 3
                           "2011-12-31"))  ## 4
  MatchWeekToMonth(week.ending, origin.month) == 1:4

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