Rstats functions for calculating if a specified date is a public holiday in New Zealand

NZHolidays.R

# Functions to calculate if a date
# is a holiday or weekend.
# Functions are vectorised, so can
# be used with columns of dates.

# Note: Holidays are mondayised if they fall on weekends
# and the Saturday/Sunday parts of Easter are excluded.
# Change the code if this is not the way you want it to work.

# Note: Mondayisation for ANZAC and Waitangi were introduced
# only in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Non-mondayised versions
# of these holidays are trivial to calculate.

# Note: This file includes code to calculate
# Wellington Anniversary weekend, although it is not
# included in the is.NZHoliday function. No other anniversary
# days are included at this time.

library(timeDate) # For Easter calculation

# Determine if a given day is a weekend
is.Weekend <- function(x) {
  return(weekdays(x) %in% c("Saturday", "Sunday"))
}

# Determine if a given date is in the 
# range easter friday to easter monday inclusive.
# Note that this includes the whole weekend
is.Easter <- function(x) {
  year <- as.numeric(format(x, "%Y"))
  date.easter <- as.Date(timeDate::Easter(year))
  # Make this (-2:2) to include Easter Tuesday
  # (not a public holiday, but it is for e.g.
  # schoolchildren.)
  # Change to c(-2:1) to include weekend
  return((x - date.easter) %in% c(-2, 1))
}

# Determine if a given day is Waitangi 
# day (observed), i.e. the following 
# Monday if on weekend (from 2016)
is.Waitangi <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  year <- as.numeric(yearstr)
  date.wait <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-02-06"))
  day.wait <- weekdays(date.wait)
  date.hol <- ifelse(day.wait == "Saturday", 
                     date.wait + 2, 
                     ifelse(day.wait=="Sunday", 
                            date.wait + 1, 
                            date.wait))
  return(ifelse(year >= 2016, x == date.hol, x == date.wait))
}

# Mondayised ANZAC
is.ANZAC <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  year <- as.numeric(yearstr)
  date.anzac <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-04-25"))
  day.anzac <- weekdays(date.anzac)
  date.hol <- ifelse(day.anzac == "Saturday", 
                     date.anzac + 2, 
                     ifelse(day.anzac=="Sunday", 
                            date.anzac + 1, 
                            date.anzac))
  return(ifelse(year >= 2015, x == date.hol, x == date.anzac))
}

# Determine if a given day is Labour day
is.Labour <- function(x) {
  is.oct <- months(x) == "October"
  month.day <- as.numeric(format(x, "%d"))
  dow <- weekdays(x)
  week <- ((month.day - 1) %/% 7) + 1
  return(is.oct & (dow == "Monday") & (week == 4))
}

# Determine if a given day is Queens birthday
is.QB <- function(x) {
  is.jun <- months(x) == "June"
  month.day <- as.numeric(format(x, "%d"))
  dow <- weekdays(x)
  week <- ((month.day - 1) %/% 7) + 1
  return(is.jun & (dow == "Monday") & (week == 1))
}

# Determine if christmas day (observed)
is.Christmas <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  date.chris <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-12-25"))
  day.chris <- weekdays(date.chris)
  date.hol <- ifelse(day.chris == "Saturday", 
                     date.chris + 2, 
                     ifelse(day.chris=="Sunday", 
                            date.chris + 1, 
                            date.chris))
  return(x == date.hol)
}

# Determine if boxing day (observed)
is.Boxing <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  date.box <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-12-26"))
  day.box <- weekdays(date.box)
  date.hol <- ifelse(day.box %in% c("Saturday", "Sunday"),
                     date.box + 2, 
                     ifelse(day.box=="Monday", 
                            date.box + 1, 
                            date.box))
  return(x == date.hol)
}

# Determine if new years day (observed)
is.NewYears <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  date.ny <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-01-01"))
  day.ny <- weekdays(date.ny)
  date.hol <- ifelse(day.ny == "Saturday", 
                     date.ny + 2, 
                     ifelse(day.ny=="Sunday", 
                            date.ny + 1, 
                            date.ny))
  return(x == date.hol)
}

# Determine if new years day plus one (observed)
is.NewYearsPlusOne <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  date.nyp1 <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-01-02"))
  day.nyp1 <- weekdays(date.nyp1)
  date.hol <- ifelse(day.nyp1 %in% c("Saturday", "Sunday"),
                     date.nyp1 + 2, 
                     ifelse(day.nyp1=="Monday", 
                            date.nyp1 + 1, 
                            date.nyp1))
  return(x == date.hol)
}

# Determine if date is wellington
# anniversary, i.e closest
# Monday to the 22nd of Jan.
is.WellingtonAnn <- function(x) {
  yearstr <- format(x, "%Y")
  date.theory <- as.Date(paste0(yearstr, "-01-22"))
  day.x <- weekdays(x)
  return(day.x == "Monday" & abs(x - date.theory) < 4)
}

# Determines if day is an NZ
# Public holiday
is.NZHoliday <- function(x) {
  is.Easter(x) | is.Waitangi(x) | is.ANZAC(x) |
    is.Labour(x) | is.QB(x) | is.Christmas(x) |
    is.Boxing(x) | is.NewYears(x) | is.NewYearsPlusOne(x)
}

# NZHoliday, but includes Well Ann.
is.WellHoliday <- function(x) {
  is.NZHoliday(x) | is.WellingtonAnn(x)
}