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NUMPERIOD

Distance Between Two Year-Periods

Description

This function returns the number of time periods that lie between the provided starting period x1=c(YEAR1,PRD1) and the provided ending period x2=c(YEAR2,PRD2), given a frequency f.

Usage

NUMPERIOD(x1, x2, f = NULL)

Arguments

`x1`	Starting period specified as a numerical array `c(YEAR,PRD)`
`x2`	Ending period specified as a numerical array `c(YEAR,PRD)`
`f`	Frequency over the year. Must be a positive integer.

Value

This function returns an integer of class numeric.

Examples

# f=5, c(3,4) - c(2,3) = 6 periods
	print(NUMPERIOD(c(2,3),c(3,4),5))

bimets

Time Series and Econometric Modeling

v1.5.3

GPL-3

Authors

Andrea Luciani [aut, cre], Roberto Stok [aut], Bank of Italy [cph]

Initial release

2021-02-04