step_holiday {recipes}R Documentation

Holiday Feature Generator

Description

step_holiday creates a a specification of a recipe step that will convert date data into one or more binary indicator variables for common holidays.

Usage

step_holiday(recipe, ..., role = "predictor", trained = FALSE,
  holidays = c("LaborDay", "NewYearsDay", "ChristmasDay"), columns = NULL)

## S3 method for class 'step_holiday'
tidy(x, ...)

Arguments

recipe

A recipe object. The step will be added to the sequence of operations for this recipe.

...

One or more selector functions to choose which variables will be used to create the new variables. The selected variables should have class Date or POSIXct. See selections() for more details. For the tidy method, these are not currently used.

role

For model terms created by this step, what analysis role should they be assigned?. By default, the function assumes that the new variable columns created by the original variables will be used as predictors in a model.

trained

A logical to indicate if the quantities for preprocessing have been estimated.

holidays

A character string that includes at least one holiday supported by the timeDate package. See timeDate::listHolidays() for a complete list.

columns

A character string of variables that will be used as inputs. This field is a placeholder and will be populated once prep.recipe() is used.

x

A step_holiday object.

Details

Unlike other steps, step_holiday does not remove the original date variables. step_rm() can be used for this purpose.

Value

An updated version of recipe with the new step added to the sequence of existing steps (if any). For the tidy method, a tibble with columns terms which is the columns that will be affected and holiday.

See Also

step_date() step_rm() recipe() prep.recipe() bake.recipe() timeDate::listHolidays()

Examples

library(lubridate)

examples <- data.frame(someday = ymd("2000-12-20") + days(0:40))
holiday_rec <- recipe(~ someday, examples) %>%
   step_holiday(all_predictors())

holiday_rec <- prep(holiday_rec, training = examples)
holiday_values <- bake(holiday_rec, newdata = examples)
holiday_values

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