class.event: Event Class

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Event Class

Description

The timeEvent class represents events that occur at specific calendar times. It is useful for one-time events (for example, the Gulf War), recurring events (for example, holidays or market opening and closing times), and multiple related events (for example, the numbered Olympic games, OPEC meetings, or hurricanes).

Details

The timeEvent class is set up to hold vectors of starting and ending times of events, as well as an identifier for each event, which can be stored in any vector object. These three vectors are stored as columns of a groupVec. The timeEvent class extends the groupVec class.

Create objects of class timeEvent either by using the timeEvent function, or by coercing any positionsCalendar object to timeEvent using as.

Objects from the Class

Create objects using calls of the form new("timeEvent", ...) or timeEvent.

Slots

columns

(list) (from groupVec). Always should be a list with three elements.

names

(character) (from groupVec). Always c("start", "end", "IDs").

classes

(character) (from groupVec). Always c("positionsCalendar", "positionsCalendar", "ANY").

See Also

groupVec class, positionsCalendar class, timeEvent function.

splusTimeDate documentation built on Nov. 25, 2025, 9:08 a.m.