On 10/10/2014 8:10 AM, Abhinaba Roy wrote:
Hi Duncan,I have converted the string to a POSIXIt object using > strptime('31-may-2014',format="%d-%b-%Y") But could not figure out the way forward. Could you please elaborate a bit?
Try this: ?POSIXlt Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote:On 10/10/2014, 7:28 AM, Abhinaba Roy wrote: > Hi R helpers, > > I want to write a function which will > > 1. Count the number of fridays in the current month ( to extract month from > given date) and also the number of fridays in the preceeding month > > 2. Calculate the ratio of the number of fridays in current month to the > number of fridays in the precceding month > > 3. Return a integer value calculated as > ifelse(ratio>1,1,ifesle(ration<1,-1),0) > > The date which is passed is in the format *'31-may-2014'* > > So, given the date '31-may-2014' > > Number of fridays in May2014 = 5 > Number of fridays in Apr2014 = 4 > > Ratio = 5/4 >1 > Hence, the function will return a value 1 > > I want to call the function by passing '31-may-2014' as an argument > > How can this be done in R? > > Any help will be appreciated Convert your string to a POSIXlt object using as.POSIXlt. Then you can extract year, month and weekday from the result, and go from there. (The only unobvious part is figuring out how many days are in each month, but there are questions online giving various ways to do this.) Duncan Murdoch
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