[R-SIG-Finance] Re[R-sig-finance] lative Date Question

[CHD850]

Hi Jeff, 

Did you notice the difference in Feb 2000, as in bold? Should we expect to
see that from using lastof() ? In the function the year was divided by 400.
I wonder if that has something to do with this. 

Thanks,
Stanley


Jeff Ryan wrote:
> 
> using xts:
> 
>> library(xts)
> 
>> timeBasedSeq('2000-02/2001-01',"Date")-1
>  [1] "2000-01-31" "2000-02-29" "2000-03-31" "2000-04-30" "2000-05-31"
>  [6] "2000-06-30" "2000-07-31" "2000-08-31" "2000-09-30" "2000-10-31"
> [11] "2000-11-30" "2000-12-31"
> 
>> Sys.setenv(TZ='GMT')   # watch for TZ issues...
>> as.Date(lastof(2000,1:12))
>  [1] "2000-01-31" "2000-02-28" "2000-03-31" "2000-04-30" "2000-05-31"
>  [6] "2000-06-30" "2000-07-31" "2000-08-31" "2000-09-30" "2000-10-31"
> [11] "2000-11-30" "2000-12-31"
> 
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Jeff
> 
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