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Extract the formatted financial year from a date

Source: R/extract_fin_year.R
extract_fin_year.Rd

extract_fin_year takes a date and extracts the correct financial year in the PHS specified format from it.

Usage

extract_fin_year(date)

Arguments

date

A date which must be supplied with Date, POSIXct, POSIXlt or POSIXt class. base::as.Date(), lubridate::dmy() and as.POSIXct() are examples of functions which can be used to store dates as an appropriate class.

Value

A character vector of financial years in the form '2017/18'.

Details

The PHS accepted format for financial year is YYYY/YY e.g. 2017/18.

Examples

x <- lubridate::dmy(c(21012017, 04042017, 17112017))
extract_fin_year(x)
#> [1] "2016/17" "2017/18" "2017/18"