Name day management

The internet is full of people, social networking, individual names, and their characteristics. For the purposes of information systems, applications, and websites, it may be useful to display a list of names celebrating their name day today, or on any user-defined date. By browsing the net, it is easy to find a list of name days for a particular country in the form of three columns – the day of the month, followed by the month reference, and a list of names, which can be normalized or aggregated together to form one composite value. One way or another, it is possible to get a list based on the date, or vice versa, to get the celebration day for an individual name. In this section, the table’s structure is discussed, followed by a definition of the individual methods encapsulated by the package.

A table references the day, the month, and the value itself, as can be seen in the following snippet:

create table nameday_tab
 (day_val integer,
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