Specify the day(s) of a schedule

Creates a schedule of events occuring on the specified days of certain periods.

The type of period (week, month, quarter, year) is determined by the function used (see Details section).

on_mday(...)

on_yday(...)

on_qday(...)

on_wday(..., week_start = getOption("lubridate.week.start", 7))

on_weekend()

on_weekday()

Arguments

...	A numeric vector of day specifications. In the case of on_wday the elements can also be characters (see Details section below).
week_start	If using the on_wday function with numeric day elements, you can specify which ISO convention is used; 1 means Monday, 7 means Sunday (default).

Value

A schedule object.

Details

Each function creates a schedule where the events occur only on the specified days within the given period:

• on_mday for days of the month. Eg:

  • on_mday(1) for the 1st day of each month.

  • on_mday(15) for the 15th day of each month.

  • on_mday(31) for the 31st day of each month (where that exists).

• on_yday for days of the year. Eg:

  • on_yday(1) for the 1st day of each year.

  • on_yday(300) for the 300th day of each year.

  • on_yday(366) for the 366th day of each year (where that exists).

• on_qday for days in the quarter. Eg:

  • on_qday(1) for the 1st day of every quarter.

  • on_qday(45) for the 45th day of every quarter.

  • on_qday(92) for the 92nd day of every quarter (where that exists).

• on_wday for days of the week.

  • These can be specified using numbers (where by default 1 is Sunday, see the Arguments section above.)

    • on_wday(1) for Sundays (by default).

    • on_wday(7) for Saturdays (by default).

  • Or using weekday names:

    • on_wday("Sunday") for Sundays.

    • on_wday("Saturday") for Saturdays.

    • on_wday("Wednesday") for Wednesdays.

  • Or their abbreviations:

    • on_wday("Sun") for Sundays.

    • on_wday("Sat") for Saturdays.

    • on_wday("Wed") for Wednesdays.

All functions accept multiple day elements in a single call. For example on_mday(7, 9) produces a schedule of dates occuring on the 7th and 9th days of every month. Likewise on_mday(1:5) produces a schedule of dates occuring on the first five days of every month. Similarly on_wday("Tue", "Thu") produces a schedule of events occuring every week on both Tuesdays and Thursdays.

on_weekend() is a convenience function for on_wday("Sat", "Sun"). on_weekday() is a convenience function for dont_occur(on_wday("Sat", "Sun")).

Examples

my_dates <- seq.Date(from = as.Date("2000-01-01"),
                     to = as.Date("2000-12-01"),
                     by = "1 month")

happen(on_mday(1), my_dates)
#>  [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

happen(on_yday(1), my_dates)
#>  [1]  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

happen(on_qday(1), my_dates)
#>  [1]  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE

happen(on_wday("Tue"), my_dates)
#>  [1] FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

happen(on_wday("Tue", "Thu"), my_dates)
#>  [1] FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

happen(on_weekend(), my_dates)
#>  [1]  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE
happen(on_weekday(), my_dates)
#>  [1] FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE

## Invalid inputs will produce an immediate error:
# NOT RUN {
on_mday(32)
on_wday(8)
# }