genEVtime: Generates a vector of Eviews date formatted strings...

In fcbarbi/macroR: Functions for Macroeconomic time series analysis in R

Description

Function to generate an Eviews-formatted vector of strings with time references.

Usage

genEVtime(start, end = NULL, qobs = NULL)

Arguments

start	String with the starting date formatted as "2000M12" or "2002Q4".
end	String with the ending date, uses the same format as start. Optional if qobs specified. Defaults to NULL.
qobs	Number of observations. Optional if end specified. Defaults to NULL.

Details

Eviews formats dates of regularly spaced time series as YYYYPSS where YYYY is the year, P is the period (Month,Quarter) and SS is the subperiod (eg.1 to 12 for months)

Examples

genEVtime("1973Y1","1975Y1") # yeap, must explicit "Y1"
genEVtime("1947q3","1948Q02") # note the 0 before 2 is optional
genEVtime("1947M1",qobs=6) #

fcbarbi/macroR documentation built on May 16, 2019, 12:05 p.m.