yearweek {grates}

Constructor for yearweek objects

Description

yearweek() is a constructor for ⁠<grates_yearweek>⁠ objects. These are weeks whose first day can be specified by the user.

Usage

yearweek(year = integer(), week = integer(), firstday = 1L)

Arguments

year

⁠[integer]⁠

Vector representing the year associated with week.

double vectors will be converted via as.integer(floor(x)).

week

⁠[integer]⁠

Vector representing the week associated with 'year.

double vectors will be converted via as.integer(floor(x)).

firstday

⁠[integer]⁠

The day the week starts on from 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday).

Details

For yearweek objects the first week of a "year" is considered to be the first yearweek containing 4 days of the given calendar year. This means that the calendar year will sometimes be different to that of the associated yearweek object.

Value

A ⁠<grates_yearweek>⁠ object with subclass corresponding to the first day of the week they represent (e.g. ⁠<grates_yearweek_monday>⁠).

Note

Internally ⁠<grates_yearweek>⁠ objects are stored as the number of weeks (starting at 0) from the date of the firstday nearest the Unix Epoch (1970-01-01). That is, the number of seven day periods from:

- 1969-12-29 for `firstday` equal to 1 (Monday)
- 1969-12-30 for `firstday` equal to 2 (Tuesday)
- 1969-12-31 for `firstday` equal to 3 (Wednesday)
- 1970-01-01 for `firstday` equal to 4 (Thursday)
- 1970-01-02 for `firstday` equal to 5 (Friday)
- 1970-01-03 for `firstday` equal to 6 (Saturday)
- 1970-01-04 for `firstday` equal to 7 (Sunday)

See Also

as_yearweek() and new_yearweek().

Examples

yearweek(year = 2000L, week = 3L)