table_to_events: Generates list of Events from table.
In wjhrdy/foregen: foregen - (fo)recast (re)gressor (gen)erator

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Generates list of Events from table.

1	table_to_events(regressors_table)

regressors_table

Data frame formatted as follows with all fields as strings. event start end time_function christmas 2014-12-25 2014-12-25 none christmas 2015-12-25 2015-12-25 none promotion 2015-11-27 2015-11-30 inverse

Returns a list of Event reference classes. Grouping by event name.

regs_table <- data.frame(event=c("christmas", "christmas", "promotion"),
                         start=c("2014-12-25", "2015-12-25", "2015-11-27"),
                         end=c("2014-12-25", "2015-12-25", "2015-11-30"),
                         time_function= c("none","none","inverse"),
                         stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

table_to_events(regs_table)