sacrificial_feast: Create dummies for Sugar feast (estimated by the Umm al-Qura...

In Glender/DutchDayDummies: R-package to create regression dummies for dutch holidays

Description

Create a dummy variable that takes the value 0 or 1 to indicate the abscence or presence of the start of Sacrificial feast, also known as Eid al-Adha. The day(s) before or after this holy holiday can also be recoded by using the pre and post arguments. For example, if you also want to recode the days after Sacrificial feast, set post argument to 1.

Usage

sacrificial_feast(dates, pre = 0, post = 0)

Arguments

dates	A vector with dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
pre	non-negative integer. To encode the days before the holiday dates.
post	non-negative integer. To encode the days after the holiday dates.

Value

A dummy (binary vector).

Examples

dates <- seq_days("2021-7-17", "2021-7-25")
tibble::tibble(
   dates,
   eid_al_adha = sacrificial_feast(dates)
)

Glender/DutchDayDummies documentation built on Feb. 24, 2022, 7:15 a.m.