Get forecast dates per forecaster given select filtering criteria

Get forecast dates per forecaster given select filtering criteria

get_forecast_dates(
  forecasters,
  forecast_dates,
  start_date,
  end_date,
  date_filtering_function
)

Arguments

forecasters	vector of forecaster names
forecast_dates	A vector of date objects. If provided, only dates within this set will be returned for each forecaster (subject to all other provided criteria)
start_date	The earliest date for which to retrieve predictions
end_date	The latest date for which to retrieve predictions
date_filtering_function	A function which takes a list, where each element is a vector of dates and returns a list where each element is a subset of those in the original list. Used for custom filtering of dates (e.g. only forecasts from Mondays, where all forecasters made a forecast, etc.)

Value

A list of the same length as forecasters, where each entry is the vector at the same index in forecast_dates after being filtered according to the provided criteria