R: Extends a vector of dates to a given length

extend.time {bsts} | R Documentation

## Extends a vector of dates to a given length

### Description

Pads a vector of dates to a specified length.

### Usage

       ExtendTime(dates, number.of.periods, dt = NULL)

### Arguments

`dates` | An ordered vector of class `Date`.
`number.of.periods` | The desired length of the output.
`dt` | A character string describing the frequency of the dates in `dates`. Possible values are "daily", "weekly", "monthly", "quarterly", "yearly", or "other". An attempt to deduce `dt` will be made if it is missing.

### Value

If `number.of.periods` is longer than `length(dates)`, then `dates` will be padded to the desired length. Extra dates are added at time intervals matching the average interval in `dates`. Thus they may not be

### Author(s)

Steven L. Scott steve.the.bayesian@gmail.com

### See Also

`bsts.mixed`.

### Examples

      origin.month <- as.Date("2011-09-01")
      week.ending <- as.Date(c("2011-10-01",   ## 1
                               "2011-10-08",   ## 2
                               "2011-12-03",   ## 3
                               "2011-12-31"))  ## 4
      MatchWeekToMonth(week.ending, origin.month) == 1:4

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