lubridate (version 1.2.0)

quarter: Get the fiscal quarter of a date-time.

Description

Fiscal quarters are a way of dividing the year into fourths. The first quarter (Q1) comprises January, February and March; the second quarter (Q2) comprises April, May, June; the third quarter (Q3) comprises July, August, September; the fourth quarter (Q4) October, November, December.

Usage

quarter(x)

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

Value

  • numeric the fiscal quarter that the date-time occurs in

Examples

Run this code
x <- ymd(c("2012-03-26", "2012-05-04", "2012-09-23", "2012-12-31"))
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