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 the quarter's year.
Value
numeric the fiscal quarter that the date-time occurs in