Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> gmail.com> writes: > > According to the definition in ?strptime (which is not the same as the > ISO definition): > > format(x, "%W") returns > > "Week of the year as decimal number (00–53) using Monday as the first > day of week (and typically with the first Monday of the year as day 1 > of week 1). The UK convention." > > The first day of 2008 is a Tuesday which means that 2008 starts in week 0.
Yes I read that but it is still misleading and -- I think -- incorrect. See <www.dateandtime.org/calendar> to find out that this is week 50 even in the UK. We would have had a lot of misplaced business meetings in our company if the week numbers in Great Britain, Germany, and Sweden would actually be different. Hans Werner > >> > >> ... [rest deleted] > ______________________________________________ > R-help <at> r-project.org mailing list > 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. > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
