is_bizday: Detect business days

In holideh: Working with Canadian Dates

Detect business days

Description

In a vector of dates, detect the business days (i.e. exclude holidays and weekends).

Usage

is_bizday(x, holidays, weekend = c("Sat", "Sun"))

Arguments

x	A vector of dates or date-times. If date-times are supplied, the date component will be extracted.
holidays	A vector of dates that are holidays.
weekend	A character vector of three-letter abbreviations of weekday names indicating days that should be considered a weekend. Acceptable values are: "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat".

Details

Holiday dates can be obtained using get_holidays(), get_province(), or by defining a custom vector of holidays.

Value

A logical vector of length equal to x.

See Also

is_holiday(), is_weekend(), count_bizdays()

Examples

library(lubridate)

dates <- seq.Date(from = ymd("2025-12-20"), to = ymd("2025-12-31"), by = "1 day")
winter_holidays <- ymd(c("2025-12-25", "2025-12-26"))

rlang::set_names(is_bizday(dates, holidays = winter_holidays), dates)

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