Hi All, I am iterating through dated materials, with variable start and end dates, and would like to skip procedures everytime I encounter a weekend or holiday. To do this, I thought the easiest way would be to create a TRUE/FALSE vector corresponding to each day where it is TRUE if a workday, and FALSE if a weekend or holiday.
So far I have been able to do this for weekdays: startDate <- as.Date("2008-08-15") endDate <- as.Date("2008-09-15") AllDays <- seq(startDate, endDate, by="day") WorkDays <- ifelse(as.numeric(format(startDate+days-1, "%w"))%%6==0, FALSE, TRUE) But I'm a bit lost as to what to do for the holidays, for example "2008-09-01" is Labor Day in the above range. Is there some procedure to say if an object is "in" a given list or set? Mathematically, I would want to test: day \in Holidays where day is a given day, and Holidays is a set of all Holidays. Is there a way to do this without iteration since my start/endDates are variable? Or maybe there's a very elegant solution that I don't know about as I am still new to R. Thanks for all your help! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.