Most Recent Period Time Indexes
Return a ti
for the most recent period of the
desired frequency.
latestWeek(xTi = today()) latestMonth(xTi = today()) latestQuarter(xTi = today()) latestHalf(xTi = today()) latestYear(xTi = today()) latestQ4(xTi = today()) latestJanuary(xTi = today()) latestFebruary(xTi = today()) latestMarch(xTi = today()) latestApril(xTi = today()) latestMay(xTi = today()) latestJune(xTi = today()) latestJuly(xTi = today()) latestAugust(xTi = today()) latestSeptember(xTi = today()) latestOctober(xTi = today()) latestNovember(xTi = today()) latestDecember(xTi = today())
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The latest{whatever}
functions are the same as the
corresponding current{whatever}
functions, except that they
return the most recent completed ti
of the desired frequency.
A period is considered to be completed on it last day. For example,
if today is Thursday, then latestWedweek()
returns the week
that ended yesterday. Yesterday it would have returned the same week,
but the day before that (Tuesday) it would have returned the
"wwednesday" ti
for the week that had ended six days before.
latestWeek
returns the weekly ti
for the most recently
completed week as of xTi
. If the xTi
is itself a
ti
, the returned week is the most recently completed week as of
the last day of xTi
. (Note that the default weekly frequency
is "wmonday" (Monday-ending weeks), so latestWeek
always
returns "wmonday" ti
's.) See
setDefaultFrequencies
to change this.
All of the other latest{SomeFreq}
functions work the same way,
returning the ti
's for the most recently completed SomeFreq as
of the last day of xTi
. The tif
's (frequencies) for
latestHalf
and latestQ4
are "semiannual" and
"quarterly", respectively.
latestJanuary
returns the monthly ti
for January of the
most recently completed January-ending year that the last day of its
argument falls into. latestFebruary
returns the monthly
ti
for February of the most recently completed February-ending
year that the last day of its argument falls into, and so on.
All return return ti
objects as described in the details.
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