Package 'RcppBDT'

Title: 'Rcpp' Bindings for the Boost Date_Time Library
Description: Access to Boost Date_Time functionality for dates, durations (both for days and date time objects), time zones, and posix time ('ptime') is provided by using 'Rcpp modules'. The posix time implementation can support high-resolution of up to nano-second precision by using 96 bits (instead of 64 with R) to present a 'ptime' object (but this needs recompilation with a #define set).
Authors: Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre] , Romain Francois [aut]
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.2.6.1
Built: 2024-11-27 03:54:00 UTC
Source: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppbdt

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Bindings for Boost Date_Time

Description

This package provides R with access to Boost Date_Time functonality by using Rcpp modules.

Date, Local time, duration and time zone functionality is covered.

Details

Please consult the Boost documentation for (copious) details on the Date_Time library.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Rcpp module bdtDd for binding of Boost Date_Time date duration functionality

Description

The ⁠bdtDd⁠ module is created using Rcpp modules and wraps a helper class ⁠bdtDd⁠ around Boost Date_time date duration functionality provided by the Boost class boost::gregorian::date_duration.

New instances can be created using an integer for days of duration.

Usage

days(...)
weeks(...)

Arguments

...

suitable argument, often an integer, denoting one unit of the reference duration component

Details

Please consult the Boost documentation for (copious) details on the Date_Time library. See the Rcpp-modules vignette for details on Rcpp modules.

Method

show

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtDd"): prints a (BDTdd) date duration class object

format

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtDd"): formats a (BDTdd) date duration class object

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Rcpp module bdtDt for binding of Boost Date_Time Date functionality

Description

The ⁠bdtDt⁠ module is created using Rcpp modules and wraps a helper class ⁠bdtDt⁠ around Boost Date_time date functionality provided by the Boost class boost::gregorian::date.

New instances can be created using either the default constructor (without arguments) or the constructor using year, month, date arguments.

The ⁠bdt⁠ variable is a default instance of this bdtDt reference class. It facilities accessing the member functions via utility function, see for example getEndOfBizWeek or print(bdtDt) for the available methods.

Details

Please consult the Boost documentation for (copious) details on the Date_Time library. See the Rcpp-modules vignette for details on Rcpp modules.

Method

show

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtDt"): prints a (bdtDt) date class object

format

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtDt"): formats a (bdtDt) date class object

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Rcpp module bdtDu for binding of Boost Date_Time duration functionality

Description

The ⁠bdtDu⁠ module is created using Rcpp modules and wraps a helper class ⁠bdtDu⁠ around Boost Date_time duration functionality provided by the Boost class boost::posix_time::duration.

New instances can be created using four integer values for hour, minute, seconds and fractional seconds. Fractional seconds ought to be at a nano-second granularity; there may be platforms not permitting this.

Usage

hours(...)
microseconds(...)
milliseconds(...)
minutes(...)
nanoseconds(...)
seconds(...)

Arguments

...

suitable argument, often an integer, denoting one unit of the reference duration component

Details

Please consult the Boost documentation for (copious) details on the Date_Time library. See the Rcpp-modules vignette for details on Rcpp modules.

Method

show

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtDu"): prints a (BDTdu) duration class object

format

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtDu"): formats a (BDTdu) duration class object

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Rcpp module bdtPt for binding of Boost Date_Time ptime functionality

Description

The ⁠bdtDu⁠ module is created using Rcpp modules and wraps a helper class ⁠bdtPt⁠ around Boost Date_time duration functionality provided by the Boost class boost::posix_time::ptime.

New instances can be created using either a default construction (creating an unset instance) or using seven integer values for year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds and fractional seconds. Fractional seconds ought to be at a nano-second granularity; there may be platforms not permitting this.

Details

Please consult the Boost documentation for (copious) details on the Date_Time library. See the Rcpp-modules vignette for details on Rcpp modules.

Method

show

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtPt"): prints a (bdtPt) ptime class object

format

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtPt"): formats a (bdtPt) ptime class object

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Rcpp module bdtTz for binding of Boost Date_Time timezone functionality

Description

The ⁠bdtTz⁠ module is created using Rcpp modules and wraps a helper class ⁠bdtTz⁠ around Boost Date_time timezone functionality provided mainly by the Boost classes boost::local_time::tz_database and boost::local_time::time_zone_ptr.

On startup, the database object is initialized using a local copy (in csv format) of the timezone data. Instances of the timezone object, represented by an instance of the timezone pointer class, can be created and queried.

New instances can be created using a valid timezone region string (such “Europe/London”).

Details

Please consult the Boost documentation for (copious) details on the Date_Time library. See the Rcpp-modules vignette for details on Rcpp modules.

Method

show

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtTz"): prints a (bdtTz) timezone class object

format

signature(x = "Rcpp_bdtTz"): formats a (bdtTz) timezone class object

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Parse POSIXct objects from character variables

Description

This function uses the Boost Date_Time library to parse datetimes from strings. It returns a vector of POSIXct objects. These represent dates and time as (possibly fractional) seconds since the ‘epoch’ of January 1, 1970. A timezone can be set, if none is supplied ‘UTC’ is set.

Usage

charToPOSIXct(sv, tz = "UTC")

Arguments

sv

A vector of type character with datetime expressions in ISO format to be parsed and converted.

tz

A string with the timezone, defaults to ‘UTC’ if unset

Details

A single standard ISO format ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ (with optional trailing fractional seconds) is tried. In the case of parsing failure a NA value is returned. See the function toPOSIXct for more general input format

Fractional seconds are supported as well. As R itself only supports microseconds, the Boost compile-time option for nano-second resolution has not been enabled.

Value

A vector of ‘POSIXct’ elements.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

times <- c("2004-03-21 12:45:33.123456",
          "2004-03-21 12:45:34")
charToPOSIXct(times)

Parse POSIXct objects from character variables

Description

This function uses Rcpp to parse datetimes from strings. It returns a vector of POSIXct objects. These represent dates and time as (possibly fractional) seconds since the ‘epoch’ of January 1, 1970. A timezone can be set, if none is supplied ‘UTC’ is set.

Usage

cToPOSIXct(sv, fmt = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%OS", tz = "UTC")

Arguments

sv

A vector of type character with datetime expressions in ISO format to be parsed and converted.

fmt

A format, defaults to the ISO format if unset

tz

A string with the timezone, defaults to ‘UTC’ if unset

Details

The default standard ISO format ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFFFFFF’ is is used by default along with the UTC time zone.

This function is for comparison only.

Value

A vector of ‘POSIXct’ elements.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

See Also

Rcpp

Examples

times <- c("2004-03-21 12:45:33.123456",
          "2004-03-21 12:45:34")
cToPOSIXct(times)

Date accessor and construction functions from Boost Date_Time

Description

This constants are provided for convenience. In the C++ sources, enumeration types are used for days of the week, months of the year as well as the ordering terms.

Similar package-level constants are provided here as well. This should be considered as experimental and may be withdrawn in a later version of the package.

Usage

getEndOfBizWeek(date)
getEndOfMonth(date)
getYear(date)
getMonth(date)
getDay(date)
getDayOfWeek(date)
getDayOfYear(date)
getIMMDate(mon, year)
getNthDayOfWeek(nthday, dow, mon, year)
getLastDayOfWeekInMonth(dow, mon, year) 
getFirstDayOfWeekInMonth(dow, mon, year) 
getFirstDayOfWeekAfter(dow, date) 
getLastDayOfWeekBefore(dow, date)

Arguments

date

a Date object

mon

a month, specified either as an integer or one of the constants Jan, Feb, ... defined in this package

year

a four-digit year, specified as an integer

nthday

either an integer between 1 and 5, or one of the constants first, second, ... fifth defined in this package.

dow

either an integer between 0 and 6 denoting a day of the week, or one of the constants Sun, Mon, ... Sat defined in this package.

Details

Details of the Boost functions are provided by the Boost documentation.

Value

All functions return a Date object.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Constants for date functions with Boost Date_Time

Description

This constants are provided for convenience. In the C++ sources, enumeration types are used for days of the week, months of the year as well as the ordering terms.

Similar package-level constants are provided here as well. This should be considered as experimental and may be withdrawn in a later version of the package.

Details

⁠Sun⁠, ⁠Mon⁠, ⁠Tue⁠, ..., ⁠Sat⁠ can be used instead of the values 0 to 6.

⁠Jan⁠, ⁠Feb⁠, ..., ⁠Dec⁠ can be used instead of the values 1 to 12.

⁠first⁠, ⁠second⁠, ..., ⁠fifth⁠ can be used instead of the values 1 to 5.

We use the same values as the Boost source code. In other words, Sunday is 0, Monday is 1 and so on. Months, however, start at 1 for January.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel [email protected]

References

Boost Date_Time: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/date_time.html


Parse POSIXct objects from input data

Description

This function uses the Boost Date_Time library to parse datetimes (and dates) from strings, integers or even numeric values (which are cast to strings internall). It returns a vector of POSIXct objects. These represent dates and time as (possibly fractional) seconds since the ‘epoch’ of January 1, 1970. A timezone can be set, if none is supplied ‘UTC’ is set.

Usage

toPOSIXct(x, tz = "UTC")

Arguments

x

A vector of type character, integer or numeric with date(time) expressions to be parsed and converted.

tz

A string with the timezone, defaults to ‘UTC’ if unset

Details

A number of fixed formats are tried in succession. These include the standard ISO format ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ as well as different local variants including several forms popular in the United States. Two-digits years and clearly ambigous formats such as ‘03/04/05’ are ignored. In the case of parsing failure a NA value is returned.

Fractional seconds are supported as well. As R itself only supports microseconds, the Boost compile-time option for nano-second resolution has not been enabled.

Value

A vector of ‘POSIXct’ elements.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

See Also

The funtion in the anytime package which is a more finished. variant which is based on the initial work with function, and taken into its own package.

Examples

## See the source code (hah!) for a full list of formats
times <- c("2004-03-21 12:45:33.123456",
          "2004/03/21 12:45:33.123456",
          "20040321 124533.123456",
          "21.03.2004 12:45:33.123456", 
          "03/21/2004 12:45:33.123456",
          "03-21-2004 12:45:33.123456", 
          "2004-03-21",
          "20040321",
          "03/21/2004",
          "03-21-2004",
          "20010101")   
toPOSIXct(times)