R: Convert Stata business calendar dates in readable dates.

as.caldays {readstata13} | R Documentation

## Convert Stata business calendar dates in readable dates.

### Description

Convert Stata business calendar dates in readable dates.

### Usage

    as.caldays(buisdays, cal, format = "%Y-%m-%d")

### Arguments

`buisdays` | numeric Vector of business dates
`cal` | data.frame Conversion table for business calendar dates
`format` | character String with date format as in `as.Date`

### Value

Returns a vector of readable dates.

### Author(s)

Jan Marvin Garbuszus jan.garbuszus@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Sebastian Jeworutzki sebastian.jeworutzki@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

### Examples

    # read business calendar and data
    sp500 <- stbcal(system.file("extdata/sp500.stbcal", package="readstata13"))
    dat <- read.dta13(system.file("extdata/statacar.dta", package="readstata13"))

    # convert dates and check
    dat$ldatescal2 <- as.caldays(dat$ldate, sp500)
    all(dat$ldatescal2==dat$ldatescal)

[Package readstata13 version 0.9.2 Index]