R: Create a timeseries object

CreateTimeSeriesObject {MacrobondAPI}

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Create a timeseries object

Description

Create a TimeSeries object that can be uploaded to the server using the UploadOneOrMoreTimeSeries method.

Usage

CreateTimeSeriesObject(name, description, region, category, frequency, startDateOrDates, values, dayMask = TimeSeriesWeekdays[["MondayToFriday"]], metadata = CreateEmptyMetadata())

Arguments

`name`	The name of the time series. This must start with one of the prefixes "ih:mb:priv:", "ih:mb:com:", "ih:mb:dept:" or "ih:mb:lib:" and followed by a name that starts with a letter (a-z) and is followed by letters and digits.
`description`	A single line of text that describes the time series. This will, for instance, be used as the default title in charts.
`region`	A region code based on the ISO 3166 standard. There is a list of supported codes here: List of region codes.
`category`	The category of the series. This is used to group the series when browsing the database.
`frequency`	A value or name from the list `TimeSeriesFrequency`.
`startDateOrDates`	A single date, which will be used as the start date, or a list with one date for each observation.
`values`	A vector of values.
`dayMask`	Optionally a value or name from the list `TimeSeriesWeekdays` to be used for daily time series. The default value is "MondayToFriday".
`metadata`	Optionally a `Metadata` object.

Value

A object of type TimeSeries is returned.

Examples

	seriesNew = CreateTimeSeriesObject("ih:mb:priv:s1", "My forecast", "us", "Forecasts", "Monthly", as.Date("1990-01-01"), c(12.2, 12.7, 12.8, 13.0))
	UploadOneOrMoreTimeSeries(seriesNew)