calc_calendar_date: Find the date for a weekday

In pacific-hake/hakedataUSA: Extract USA Data for Pacific Hake

Find the date for a weekday

Description

Find calendar date for a weekday in a given month. For example, you might want to know the date for the second Wednesday of December in the current year. This is the typical date for the meeting of the Joint Technical Committee for the Pacific Hake stock assessment.

Usage

calc_calendar_date(
  number = 2,
  month = 12,
  year = as.numeric(format(Sys.time(), "%Y")),
  weekday = "Wednesday"
)

Arguments

number	The iteration you want, e.g., 2 for second.
month	An integer for the desired month. Options include values in 1:12.
year	The year of interest as a four-digit integer.
weekday	The day of the week that you are interested in. For example, "Wednesday" is the default.

Author(s)

Kelli F. Johnson

Examples

# Find second Wednesday in December of current year
calc_calendar_date()
# Find third Wednesday in December of current year
calc_calendar_date(3)

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