first_wednesday: First Wednesday

View source: R/first_wednesday.R

first_wednesdayR Documentation

First Wednesday

Description

Returns the first Wednesday of a month as a date in YYYY-MM-DD. Used in monthly outputs for determining publication date. Relies on lubridate for date calculations.

Usage

first_wednesday(x)

Arguments

x

A date

Value

A date giving the first Wednesday of the month.

Examples

first_wednesday(lubridate::floor_date(lubridate::today(), "month"))
x <- as.Date("01/01/2017", format = "%d/%m/%Y")
weekdays(first_wednesday(x))

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