lubridate (version 1.7.0)

quarter: Get the fiscal quarter and semester of a date-time

Description

Quarters divide the year into fourths. Semesters divide the year into halfs.

Usage

quarter(x, with_year = FALSE, fiscal_start = 1)
semester(x, with_year = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a date-time object of class POSIXct, POSIXlt, Date, chron, yearmon, yearqtr, zoo, zooreg, timeDate, xts, its, ti, jul, timeSeries, fts or anything else that can be converted with as.POSIXlt

with_year

logical indicating whether or not to include the quarter's year.

fiscal_start

numeric indicating the starting month of a fiscal year

Value

numeric

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- ymd(c("2012-03-26", "2012-05-04", "2012-09-23", "2012-12-31"))
quarter(x)
quarter(x, with_year = TRUE)
quarter(x, with_year = TRUE, fiscal_start = 11)
semester(x)
semester(x, with_year = TRUE)
# }