eurotime2date {eurostat}

Date Conversion from New Eurostat Time Format

Description

Date conversion from Eurostat time format. A function to convert Eurostat time values to objects of class Date() representing calendar dates.

Usage

eurotime2date(x, last = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a charter string with time information in Eurostat time format.

last

a logical. If FALSE (default) the date is the first date of the period (month, quarter or year). If TRUE the date is the last date of the period.

Details

Available patterns are YYYY (year), YYYY-SN (semester), YYYY-QN (quarter), YYYY-MM (month), YYYY-WNN (week) and YYYY-MM-DD (day).

Value

an object of class Date().

Author(s)

Janne Huovari [e-mail]

References

See citation("eurostat"):

# Kindly cite the eurostat R package as follows:
# 
#   Lahti L., Huovari J., Kainu M., and Biecek P. (2017). Retrieval and
#   analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat package. The R
#   Journal 9(1), pp. 385-392. doi: 10.32614/RJ-2017-019
# 
#   Lahti, L., Huovari J., Kainu M., Biecek P., Hernangomez D., Antal D.,
#   and Kantanen P. (2023). eurostat: Tools for Eurostat Open Data
#   [Computer software]. R package version 4.0.0.
#   https://github.com/rOpenGov/eurostat
# 
# To see these entries in BibTeX format, use 'print(<citation>,
# bibtex=TRUE)', 'toBibtex(.)', or set
# 'options(citation.bibtex.max=999)'.

See Also

lubridate::ymd()

Other helpers: cut_to_classes(), dic_order(), eurotime2num(), harmonize_country_code(), label_eurostat()

Examples

na_q <- get_eurostat("namq_10_pc", time_format = "raw")
na_q$TIME_PERIOD <- eurotime2date(x = na_q$TIME_PERIOD)
unique(na_q$TIME_PERIOD)


## Not run: 
# Test for weekly data
get_eurostat(
  id = "lfsi_abs_w",
  select_time = c("W"),
  time_format = "date"
  )

## End(Not run)