Easter holidays in each season — easter • forecast

Returns a vector of 0's and 1's or fractional results if Easter spans March and April in the observed time period. Easter is defined as the days from Good Friday to Easter Sunday inclusively, plus optionally Easter Monday if easter.mon=TRUE.

Usage

easter(x, easter.mon = FALSE)

Arguments

x: Monthly or quarterly time series
easter.mon: If TRUE, the length of Easter holidays includes Easter Monday.

Value

Time series

Details

Useful for adjusting calendar effects.

Author

Earo Wang

Examples


easter(wineind, easter.mon = TRUE)
#>       Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
#> 1980 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1981 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1982 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1983 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1984 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1985 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1986 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1987 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1988 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1989 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1990 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1991 0.00 0.00 0.75 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1992 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1993 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
#> 1994 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00