[R] extract week from date

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Juan Ramon Gonzalez wrote:

> Hello R-users,
>
> Does anyone know how obtain the week of a date?
> (in SPPS the instruction is "xdate.week")

Extract the day and divide by seven?

as.POSIXlt(a.date)$yday %/% 7

Perhaps add 1 if you want the year to start at week 1 rather than week 0.

	-thomas


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