This function converts an input tibble with columns for epiyear and epiweek into a tsibble object. The tsibble has columns specifying indices for the time series as well as a date for the Monday of the epiyear/epiweek combination at each row. Users can optionally ignore the current week when generating the tsibble via the "chop" argument.

make_tsibble(df, chop = TRUE)

Arguments

df

A tibble containing columns epiyear and epiweek.

chop

Logical indicating whether or not to remove the most current week (default TRUE).

Value

A tsibble containing additional columns monday indicating the date for the Monday of that epiweek, and yweek (a yearweek vctr class object) that indexes the tsibble in 1 week increments.