R: Get the fiscal quarter and semester of a date-time

quarter {lubridate} | R Documentation

## Get the fiscal quarter and semester of a date-time

### Description

Quarters divide the year into fourths. Semesters divide the year into halfs.

### Usage

    quarter(x, with_year = FALSE, fiscal_start = 1)

    semester(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.
`fiscal_start` | numeric indicating the starting month of a fiscal year

### Value

numeric

### Examples

    x <- ymd(c("2012-03-26", "2012-05-04", "2012-09-23", "2012-12-31"))
    quarter(x)
    quarter(x, with_year = TRUE)
    quarter(x, with_year = TRUE, fiscal_start = 11)
    semester(x)
    semester(x, with_year = TRUE)

[Package lubridate version 1.7.2 Index]