Find the day of a week
df = data.frame(date=c("2012-02-01", "2012-02-01", "2012-02-02"))
df$day <- weekdays(as.Date(df$date))
df
## date day
## 1 2012-02-01 Wednesday
## 2 2012-02-01 Wednesday
## 3 2012-02-02 Thursday
Edit: Just to show another way...
The wday
component of a POSIXlt
object is the numeric weekday (0-6 starting on Sunday).
as.POSIXlt(df$date)$wday
## [1] 3 3 4
which you could use to subset a character vector of weekday names
c("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday",
"Friday", "Saturday")[as.POSIXlt(df$date)$wday + 1]
## [1] "Wednesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday"
Use the lubridate
package and function wday
:
library(lubridate)
df$date <- as.Date(df$date)
wday(df$date, label=TRUE)
[1] Wed Wed Thurs
Levels: Sun < Mon < Tues < Wed < Thurs < Fri < Sat
Look up ?strftime
:
%A
Full weekday name in the current locale
df$day = strftime(df$date,'%A')