holidays: Holidays in your Country

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Holidays in your Country

Description

This function lets the user automatically scrap holiday dates from any country and year within +- 5 years. Thanks to timeanddate.com!

Usage

holidays(
  countries = "Venezuela",
  years = year(Sys.Date()),
  quiet = FALSE,
  include_regions = FALSE
)

Arguments

countries	Character or vector. For which country(ies) should the holidays be imported?
years	Character or vector. For which year(s) do you wish to import holiday dates?
quiet	Boolean. Keep quiet? If not, informative messages will be shown.
include_regions	Boolean. Default FALSE. If TRUE, for countries with internal subdivisions, it will provide details on which sub-state the found holidays apply.

Value

data.frame with holidays data for given countries and years.

See Also

Other Data Wrangling: balance_data(), categ_reducer(), cleanText(), date_cuts(), date_feats(), file_name(), formatHTML(), impute(), left(), normalize(), num_abbr(), ohe_commas(), ohse(), quants(), removenacols(), replaceall(), replacefactor(), textFeats(), textTokenizer(), vector2text(), year_month(), zerovar()

Other Feature Engineering: date_feats(), ohse()

Other Scrapper: filesGD(), get_mp3(), gtrends_related(), ip_data(), readGS(), splot_summary(), stocks_quote()

Other One Hot Encoding: date_feats(), ohe_commas(), ohse()

Examples

holidays(countries = "Argentina")
year <- as.integer(format(Sys.Date(), format = "%Y"))
holidays(countries = c("Spain", "Venezuela"), years = year)
holidays(countries = "Germany", include_regions = TRUE)

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