get_quarter: Returns the quarter (and its bounding dates) for a given date

In mmparker/mpmisc: A collection of miscellaneous functions for report-making.

Description

This function returns the quarter name, start date, and end date for a given date. Optionally, the function can return the information for past and present quarters.

Usage

  get_quarter(Date, offset = 0)

Arguments

Date	the input date
offset	the number of quarters ahead or behind to look

Value

A single-row data.frame with four variables:

qtr.num	The quarter as a numeric, 1 through 4
qtr	A more complete label in the format "2013 Q3"
start.date	The first day of the quarter
end.date	The last day of the quarter

Examples

# The current quarter's information
get_quarter(Sys.Date())

# Information about the next quarter
get_quarter(Sys.Date(), 1)

# Information about the last quarter
get_quarter(Sys.Date(), -1)

mmparker/mpmisc documentation built on May 23, 2019, 5:05 a.m.