[R] Assigning categorical values to dates

[Uwe Ligges]

For a data.frame d, I'd simply do

d$cycle <- factor(d$dates, labels=1:3)

but I have not  idea about tibbles.


Best,
Uwe Ligges


On 22.07.2021 05:12, N. F. Parsons wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If I have a tibble as follows:
> 
> tibble(dates = c(rep("2021-07-04", 2),  rep("2021-07-25", 3),
> rep("2021-07-18", 4)))
> 
> how in the world do I add a column that evaluates each of those dates and
> assigns it a categorical value such that
> 
> dates                cycle
> <chr>               <chr>
> 2021-07-04      1
> 2021-07-04      1
> 2021-07-25      3
> 2021-07-25      3
> 2021-07-25      3
> 2021-07-18      2
> 2021-07-18      2
> 2021-07-18      2
> 2021-07-18      2
> 
> Not to further complicate matters, but some months I may only have one
> date, and some months I will have 4 dates - so thats not a fixed quantity.
> We've literally been doing this by hand at my job and I'd like to automate
> it.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Nate Parsons
> 
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