Replace the week in the date with week 2, say -- a week in which nothing will go wrong and then add or subtract the appropriate number of weeks.
d <- c('2016 00 Sun', '2017 53 Sun', '2017 53 Mon') # test data as.Date(sub(" .. ", "02", d), "%Y %U %a") + 7 * (as.numeric(sub(".... (..) ...", "\\1", d)) - 2) ## [1] "2015-12-27" "2017-12-31" "2018-01-01" On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:23 AM peter salzman <peter.salzmanu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > to turn year and week into the date one can do the following: > > as.Date('2018 05 Sun', "%Y %W %a") > > however, when we want the Sunday (1st day of week) of the 1st week of 2018 > we get NA because 1/1/2018 was on Monday > > as.Date('2018 00 Mon',format="%Y %U %a") > ## 2018-01-01 > as.Date('2018 00 Sun',format="%Y %U %a") > ## NA > > btw the same goes for last week > as.Date('2017 53 Sun',format="%Y %U %a") > ## 2017-12-31 > as.Date('2017 53 Mon',format="%Y %U %a") > ## NA > > So my question is : > how do i get > from "2018 00 Sun" to 2018-12-31 > and > from "2017 53 Mon" to 2018-01-01 > > i realize i can loop over days of week and do some if/then statements, > but is there a built in function? > > thank you > peter > > > > > > -- > Peter Salzman, PhD > Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology > University of Rochester > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.