Help make this simpler – count business day
I am a beginner in R and this is my first post Want to count the day in month. For example Day 2010-09-01 1 Wed 2010-09-02 2 Thurs 2010-09-03 3 Friday 2010-09-07 4 Tuesday 2010-09-08 5 Wed 2010-09-09 6 Thursday 2010-09-10 7 Friday #------------------------- library(tseries) msft <- get.hist.quote(instrument="MSFT", start="1986-03-31", end="2008-09-10", quote=c("O","H","L","C","A","V"), provider="yahoo", retclass="zoo") # tail(msft) # Open High Low Close AdjClose Volume #2008-09-03 27.00 27.18 26.84 26.90 25.73 57127700 #2008-09-04 26.74 26.89 26.35 26.35 25.21 66141900 #2008-09-05 26.03 26.22 25.63 25.65 24.54 82305200 #2008-09-08 26.21 26.33 25.67 26.12 24.99 62110800 #2008-09-09 26.20 26.60 26.05 26.10 24.97 85735700 #2008-09-10 26.52 26.86 26.25 26.44 25.29 75064900 countday<-function(z) { z <- cbind(z,rep(0,times=nrow(z))) rng <- range(time(z)) StartDate <- rng[1] EndDate <- rng[2] starty <- as.numeric(format(StartDate, "%Y")) endy <- as.numeric(format(EndDate, "%Y")) year <- starty for (year in starty:endy){ for (month in 1:12){ rows <- which(as.numeric(format(time(z),"%m")) == month & as.numeric(format(time(z),"%Y")) == year ) temp <- z[rows,] n <- 1:nrow(temp) z[rows,ncol(z)] <- n } } colnames(z) <- c(colnames(z[,1:(ncol(z)-1)]),"Day") return(z) } msft <- countday(msft) >msft # Open High Low Close AdjClose Volume Day #2008-09-03 27.00 27.18 26.84 26.90 25.73 57127700 2 #2008-09-04 26.74 26.89 26.35 26.35 25.21 66141900 3 #2008-09-05 26.03 26.22 25.63 25.65 24.54 82305200 4 #2008-09-08 26.21 26.33 25.67 26.12 24.99 62110800 5 #2008-09-09 26.20 26.60 26.05 26.10 24.97 85735700 6 #2008-09-10 26.52 26.86 26.25 26.44 25.29 75064900 7 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-make-this-simpler-count-business-day-tp3034621p3034621.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.