Get Bank Holiday Calendar

Source: R/get_cal.R

Downloads and formats the bank holiday calendar for use with TransXchange data.

get_bank_holidays(
  url_ew = "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays/england-and-wales.ics",
  url_scot = "https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays/scotland.ics"
)

Arguments

url_ew

url to ics file for England and Wales

url_scot

url to ics file for Scotland

Value

data frame

Details

TransXchange records bank holidays by name (e.g. Christmas Day), some UK bank holidays move around, so this function downloads the official bank holiday calendar. The offical feed only covers a short period of time so this may not be suitable for converting files from the past / future.