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, with_year = FALSE)
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
with_year
logical indicating whether or not to
include they quarter's year.
Value
numeric the fiscal quarter that the date-time occurs in