[R] transforming year.weeknumber into dates

[jim holtman]

try this:

> x <- c('2009.12', '2009.30')
> as.Date(paste(x, '1'), format = "%Y.%W %w")
[1] "2009-03-23" "2009-07-27"
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I know how to transform dates into year.weeknumber format using zoo:
>
> library(zoo)
> as.numeric(format(as.Date("2010-10-02"), "%Y.%W"))
>
> But is there a straightforward way to do the opposite - to transform
> character strings like "2009.12" or "2009.30" back into dates
> (assuming that weeks start on Monday)?
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
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Jim Holtman
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