eurotime2date: Date Conversion from New Eurostat Time Format
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eurotime2date

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Date Conversion from New Eurostat Time Format

Description

Date conversion from Eurostat time format. A function to convert Eurostat time values to objects of class base::Date() representing calendar dates.

Usage

eurotime2date(x, last = FALSE)

Arguments

`x`	a charter string with time information in Eurostat time format.
`last`	a logical. If `FALSE` (default) the date is the first date of the period (month, quarter or year). If `TRUE` the date is the last date of the period.

Details

Available patterns are YYYY (year), YYYY-SN (semester), YYYY-QN (quarter), YYYY-MM (month), YYYY-WNN (week) and YYYY-MM-DD (day).

Value

an object of class base::Date().

Author(s)

Janne Huovari janne.huovari@ptt.fi

References

See citation("eurostat"):

# Kindly cite this package by citing the following R Journal article:
# 
#   Lahti L., Huovari J., Kainu M., and Biecek P. (2017). Retrieval and
#   analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat package. The R
#   Journal 9(1), pp. 385-392. doi: 10.32614/RJ-2017-019
# 
# In addition, please provide a citation to the specific software version
# used:
# 
#   Lahti L, Huovari J, Kainu M, Biecek P, Hernangomez D, Antal D,
#   Kantanen P (2026). "eurostat: Tools for Eurostat Open Data."
#   doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.eurostat
#   <https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.eurostat>. R package version
#   4.1.1, <https://github.com/rOpenGov/eurostat>.
# 
# To see these entries in BibTeX format, use 'print(<citation>,
# bibtex=TRUE)', 'toBibtex(.)', or set
# 'options(citation.bibtex.max=999)'.

Examples



na_q <- get_eurostat("namq_10_pc", time_format = "raw")
na_q$TIME_PERIOD <- eurotime2date(x = na_q$TIME_PERIOD)
unique(na_q$TIME_PERIOD)


## Not run: 
# Test for weekly data
get_eurostat(
  id = "lfsi_abs_w",
  select_time = c("W"),
  time_format = "date"
  )

## End(Not run)

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