calendR {calendR}

Monthly and yearly calendars

Description

Create ready to print monthly and yearly calendars. The function allows personalizing colors (even setting a gradient color scale for a full month or year), texts and fonts. In addition, for monthly calendars you can also add text on the days and moon phases.

Usage

calendR(
  year = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y"),
  month = NULL,
  from = NULL,
  to = NULL,
  start = c("S", "M"),
  orientation = c("portrait", "landscape"),
  title,
  title.size = 20,
  title.col = "gray30",
  subtitle = "",
  subtitle.size = 10,
  subtitle.col = "gray30",
  text = NULL,
  text.pos = NULL,
  text.size = 4,
  text.col = "gray30",
  special.days = NULL,
  special.col = "gray90",
  gradient = FALSE,
  low.col = "white",
  col = "gray30",
  lwd = 0.5,
  lty = 1,
  font.family = "sans",
  font.style = "plain",
  day.size = 3,
  days.col = "gray30",
  weeknames,
  weeknames.col = "gray30",
  weeknames.size = 4.5,
  week.number = FALSE,
  week.number.col = "gray30",
  week.number.size = 8,
  monthnames,
  months.size = 10,
  months.col = "gray30",
  months.pos = 0.5,
  mbg.col = "white",
  legend.pos = "none",
  legend.title = "",
  bg.col = "white",
  bg.img = "",
  margin = 1,
  ncol,
  lunar = FALSE,
  lunar.col = "gray60",
  lunar.size = 7,
  pdf = FALSE,
  doc_name = "",
  papersize = "A4"
)

Arguments

year

Calendar year. By default uses the current year.

month

Month of the year or NULL (default) for the yearly calendar.

from

Custom start date of the calendar. If from != NULL, year and month arguments won't be taken into account.

to

Custom end date of the calendar.

start

"S" (default) for starting the week on Sunday or "M" for starting the week on Monday.

orientation

The calendar orientation: "portrait" or "landscape" (default). Also accepts "p" and "l".

title

Title of the the calendar. If not supplied is the year and the month, or the year if month = NULL.

title.size

Size of the main title.

title.col

Color of the main title.

subtitle

Subtitle of the calendar in italics (optional).

subtitle.size

Font size of the subtitle.

subtitle.col

Color of the subtitle.

text

Character vector of texts to be added on the calendar. Only for monthly calendars.

text.pos

Numeric vector containing the number of days of the month where to add the texts of the text argument.

text.size

Font size of the texts added with the text argument.

text.col

Color of the texts added with the text argument.

special.days

Numeric vector indicating the days to color or "weekend" for coloring all the weekends.

special.col

Color for the days indicated in special.days. If gradient = TRUE, is the higher color of the gradient.

gradient

Boolean. If special.days is a numeric vector of the length of the displayed days, gradient = TRUE creates a gradient of the special.col on the calendar.

low.col

If gradient = TRUE, is the lower color of the gradient. If gradient = FALSE is the background color of the days. Defaults to "white".

col

Color of the lines of the calendar.

lwd

Line width of the calendar.

lty

Line type of the calendar. If lty = 0 no lines are drawn.

font.family

Font family of all the texts.

font.style

Style of all the texts and numbers except the subtitle. Possible options are "plain" (default), "bold", "italic" and "bold.italic".

day.size

Font size of the number of the days.

days.col

Color of the number of the days.

weeknames

Character vector with the names of the days of the week starting on Monday. By default they will be in the system locale.

weeknames.col

Color of the names of the days.

weeknames.size

Size of the names of the days.

week.number

If TRUE, the week number of the year for each week is added.

week.number.col

If week.number = TRUE is the color of the week numbers.

week.number.size

If week.number = TRUE is the size of the week numbers.

monthnames

Character vector with the names of the months of the calendar. By default they will be upper case and in the system locale.

months.size

Font size of the names of the months.

months.col

If month = NULL, is the color of the month names.

months.pos

Horizontal align of the month names. Defaults to 0.5 (center).

mbg.col

Background color of the month names. Defaults to "white".

legend.pos

If gradient = TRUE, is the position of the legend. It can be set to "none" (default), "top", "bottom", "left" and "right".

legend.title

If legend.pos != "none" and gradient = TRUE, is the title of the legend.

bg.col

Background color of the calendar. Defaults to "white".

bg.img

Character string containing the URL or the local directory of a image to be used as background.

margin

Numeric. Allows controlling the margin of the calendar.

ncol

Numeric. Controls the number of columns of the yearly calendar. Overrides the default values for "landscape" and "portrait" orientation.

lunar

Boolean. If TRUE, draws the lunar phases. Only available for monthly calendars.

lunar.col

If lunar = TRUE, is the color of the hide part of the moons.

lunar.size

If lunar = TRUE, is the size of the representation of the moons.

pdf

Boolean. If TRUE, saves the calendar in the working directory in A4 format.

doc_name

If pdf = TRUE, is the name of the generated file (without the file extension). If not specified, creates files of the format: Calendar_year.pdf for yearly calendars and Calendar_month_year.pdf for monthly calendars.

papersize

PDF paper size. Possible options are "A6", "A5", "A4" (default), "A3", "A2", "A1" and "A0". Depending on the size you will need to fine-tune some arguments, like the font sizes.

Author(s)

• Soage González, José Carlos.

• Maintainer: José Carlos Soage González. [e-mail]

Examples

# Calendar of the current year
calendR()

# Calendar of July, 2005, starting on Monday
calendR(year = 2005, month = 7, start = "M", subtitle = "Have a nice day")


# Create ready to print monthly calendars for all the months of the current year
# with week starting on Sunday
invisible(sapply(1:12 , function(i) calendR(month = i, pdf = TRUE,
 doc_name = file.path(tempdir(), paste0("myCalendar", i , ".pdf")))))