[R-sig-finance] Problems with monthly sequences

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

library(fCalendar)
dates <- timeSequence(from = "2005-12-1", to = "2006-12-1", format =
"%Y-%m-%d", by="month", FinCenter = "Europe/Warsaw")
dates <- timeLastDayInMonth(dates)


On 2/4/06, Wojciech Slusarski <wojciech.slusarski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> Could anyone help me with creating a monthly series of dates?
> When I try to do:
>
> dates = timeSequence(from = "2005-12-31", to = "2006-12-31", format =
> "%Y-%m-%d", by="month", FinCenter = "Europe/Warsaw")
>
> I get:
>
> > dates
> [1] "Europe/Warsaw"
>  [1] [2005-12-31] [2006-01-31] [2006-03-03] [2006-03-31] [2006-05-01]
>  [6] [2006-05-31] [2006-07-01] [2006-07-31] [2006-08-31] [2006-10-01]
> [11] [2006-10-31] [2006-12-01] [2006-12-31]
>
> Unfourtunately, I would like to heave end of month at each point.
> I thought, that maybe using this function would also help when trying to add
> a month to a date. I would like to have
>
> "2006-01-31" + 1M = "2006-02-28"
>
> in MS EXCEL I would use EDATE("2006-01-31";1), and that would work. I
> couldn't find any similar function in R for that. Am I missing some
> function?
>
> Best regards,
> Wojtek
>
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