getDay_ISO8601_week {SmartMeterAnalytics}

Retrieves the date of the monday in a ISO8601 week-string

Description

Example date formats defined by ISO 8601: * Single days are written in yyy-mm-dd (y: year, m: month, d: day); e.g., 2016-07-19 * Weeks are written in yyyy-Www; e.g., 2016-W29

Usage

getDay_ISO8601_week(
  theweek,
  day = c("Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun")
)

Arguments

theweek

the string with the week name

day

the weekday that shall be returned

Details

The function uses format und as.Date internally and can therefore not handle ISO8601 week formats. Therefore, a workaround is implemented that can lead to suspicious behavior in future versions

Value

the date of the weekday in the given week

Author(s)

Konstantin Hopf [e-mail]