This function lets the user automatically scrap holiday dates from any country and year within +- 5 years. Thanks to timeanddate.com!
Usage
holidays(
countries = "Venezuela",
years = year(Sys.Date()),
quiet = FALSE,
include_regions = FALSE
)Arguments
- countries
Character or vector. For which country(ies) should the holidays be imported?
- years
Character or vector. For which year(s) do you wish to import holiday dates?
- quiet
Boolean. Keep quiet? If not, informative messages will be shown.
- include_regions
Boolean. Default FALSE. If TRUE, for countries with internal subdivisions, it will provide details on which sub-state the found holidays apply.
See also
Other Data Wrangling:
balance_data(),
categ_reducer(),
cleanText(),
date_cuts(),
date_feats(),
file_name(),
formatHTML(),
impute(),
left(),
normalize(),
num_abbr(),
ohe_commas(),
ohse(),
quants(),
removenacols(),
replaceall(),
replacefactor(),
textFeats(),
textTokenizer(),
vector2text(),
year_month(),
zerovar()
Other Feature Engineering:
date_feats(),
ohse()
Other Scrapper:
filesGD(),
gtrends_related(),
ip_data(),
mp3_get(),
readGS(),
splot_summary(),
stocks_quote()
Other One Hot Encoding:
date_feats(),
ohe_commas(),
ohse()
Examples
# \donttest{
holidays(countries = "Argentina")
#> >>> Extracting Argentina's holidays for 2025
#> Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> # A tibble: 0 × 10
#> # ℹ 10 variables: holiday <date>, holiday_name <chr>, holiday_type <chr>,
#> # national <lgl>, observance <lgl>, bank <lgl>, nonwork <lgl>, season <lgl>,
#> # hother <lgl>, county <fct>
year <- as.integer(format(Sys.Date(), format = "%Y"))
holidays(countries = c("Spain", "Venezuela"), years = year)
#> >>> Extracting Spain's holidays for 2025
#> Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> >>> Extracting Venezuela's holidays for 2025
#> Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> # A tibble: 0 × 11
#> # ℹ 11 variables: holiday <date>, holiday_name <chr>, holiday_type <chr>,
#> # national <lgl>, observance <lgl>, bank <lgl>, nonwork <lgl>, season <lgl>,
#> # hother <lgl>, country <fct>, county <fct>
holidays(countries = "Germany", include_regions = TRUE)
#> >>> Extracting Germany's holidays for 2025
#> Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> # A tibble: 0 × 11
#> # ℹ 11 variables: holiday <date>, holiday_name <chr>, holiday_type <chr>,
#> # holiday_details <chr>, national <lgl>, observance <lgl>, bank <lgl>,
#> # nonwork <lgl>, season <lgl>, hother <lgl>, county <fct>
# }