my_rosh function

Internal function for a specific application

Creates a dummy moving holiday variable for the weekly number of initial registrations at the Employment Service in Israel.

my_rosh(dates, holiday.dates, start = -11, end = 12)

Arguments

• dates: a vector of class "Date", containing the data dates
• holiday.dates: a vector of class "Date", containing the occurrences of the holiday. It can be generated with as.Date().
• start: -11 for rosh, 3 for pesach
• end: 12 for rosh, -1 for pesach

Returns

rosh holiday variable

Examples

# Creating moving holiday dummy variable for Israeli Rosh Hashanah
data(gasoline.data)
data(holiday_dates_il) # dates of Israeli Rosh Hashanah and Pesach
movehol=my_rosh(gasoline.data$date,holiday.dates = holiday_dates_il$rosh)