2018-03-3 in your code should be 2018-03-31. The line then'201415' needs to be fixed.
When posting please provide minimal self-contained examples. There was no input provided and library statements not relevant to the posted code were included. Fixing the invalid date and bad line, getting rid of those library statements that are unnecessary and providing some test input, it works for me for the input shown. (Note that it would NOT work if we omitted library(RH2) since the default sqlite back end does not have date types and does not know that an R date -- which is sent to sqlite as the number of days since 1970-01-01 -- corresponds to a particular character string; however, the H2 database does have date types. See FAQ #4 on the sqldf github home page for more info. https://github.com/ggrothendieck/sqldf ) This works: library(sqldf) library(RH2) cr <- data.frame(ReportDate = as.Date("2017-09-11")) # input cr2 = sqldf(" select ReportDate , case when ReportDate between '2012-04-01' and '2013-03-31' then '2012_13' when ReportDate between '2013-04-01' and '2014-03-31' then '2013_14' when ReportDate between '2014-04-01' and '2015-03-31' then '2014_15' when ReportDate between '2015-04-01' and '2016-03-31' then '2015_16' when ReportDate between '2016-04-01' and '2017-03-31' then '2016_17' when ReportDate between '2017-04-01' and '2018-03-31' then '2017_18' else null end as FY from cr where ReportDate >= '2012-04-01' ") giving: > cr2 ReportDate FY 1 2017-09-11 2017_18 Note that using as.yearqtr from zoo this alternative could be used: library(zoo) cr <- data.frame(ReportDate = as.Date("2017-09-11")) # input fy <- as.integer(as.yearqtr(cr$ReportDate) + 3/4) transform(cr, FY = paste0(fy-1, "_", fy %% 100)) giving: ReportDate FY 1 2017-09-11 2017_18 On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Mangalani Peter Makananisa <pmakanan...@sars.gov.za> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to create a new variable called Fiscal Year (FY) using case > expression in sqldf and I am getting a null FY , see the code below . > > >> + then '2017_18' else null>> South African Revenue >> Service (SARS)>> Specialist: Statistical Support>> TCEI_OR (Head Office)>> >> Tell: +272 422 7357, Cell: +2782 456 4669>> >> http://www.sars.gov.za/Pages/Email-disclaimer.aspxemail: ggrothendieck at >> gmail.with > Please advise me as to how I can do this mutation. > > > > library(zoo) > > library(lubridate) > > library(stringr) > > library(RH2) > > library(sqldf) > > > > cr$ReportDate = as.Date(cr$ReportDate, format ='%Y-%m-%d') > > > >> cr2 = sqldf(" select ReportDate > > + , case > > + when ReportDate between '2012-04-01' and > '2013-03-31' > > + then '2012_13' > > + when ReportDate between '2013-04-01' and > '2014-03-31' > > + then '2013_14' > > + when ReportDate between '2014-04-01' and > '2015-03-31' > > + then'201415' > > + when ReportDate between '2015-04-01' and > '2016-03-31' > > + then '2015_16' > > + when ReportDate between '2016-04-01' and > '2017-03-31' > > + then '2016_17' > > + when ReportDate between '2017-04-01' and > '2018-03-3' > > + end as FY > > + from cr > > + where ReportDate >= '2012-04-01' > > + ") > > > > Thanking you in advance > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Mangalani Peter Makananisa (0005786) > > > > > > Disclaimer > > Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal > notice which can be viewed at -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.