holiday_scraper: A Holiday Scraper

In JNiel/intraMonthDist: Creates an intramonthly distribution estimate for coming year

Description

This function allows you to gather holiday dates and their type for specified countries over a specified time period. Data is gathered from timeanddate.com, so make sure your internet connection is up for it to work properly. Output data frame "master calendar" with variables: country - Country for given holiday dates. year - Year of given holiday dates. Date - date of the actual holiday listed. holiday_name - Official name of holiday given in calendar. holiday_type - Type of holiday. All types are included here, in total 26 different. Date_fmt - Date output in date format Y-m-d.

Usage

holiday_scraper(countries = c("sweden", "austria", "norway", "denmark",
  "finland", "germany", "netherlands", "uk", "us"), start_year = 2010,
  end_year = 2020)

Arguments

countries	Vector with countries for which holidays are wanted. Full name, lower case, with exception of "uk" and "us". Defaults to c("sweden", "norway", "denmark", "finland", "germany", "netherlands", "uk", "us").
start_year	Numeric year of which you want the calendar to start from. Defaults to 2010.
end_year	Numeric year of which you want the calendar to end at. Defaults to 2020.

Examples

holiday_scraper(countries = c("se", "no", "fi"), start_year = 2015, end_year = 2018)

JNiel/intraMonthDist documentation built on May 7, 2019, 10:12 a.m.