date - R: How to get the Week number of the month

Question

I am new in R.
I want the week number of the month, which the date belongs to.

By using the following code:

>CurrentDate<-Sys.Date()
>Week Number <- format(CurrentDate, format="%U")
>Week Number
"31"

%U will return the Week number of the year .
But i want the week number of the month.
If the date is 2014-08-01 then i want to get 1.( The Date belongs to the 1st week of the month).

Eg:
2014-09-04 -> 1 (The Date belongs to the 1st week of the month).
2014-09-10 -> 2 (The Date belongs to the 2nd week of the month).
and so on...

How can i get this?

Reference: http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/base/html/strptime.html

Answer 1

By analogy of the weekdays function:

monthweeks <- function(x) {
    UseMethod("monthweeks")
}
monthweeks.Date <- function(x) {
    ceiling(as.numeric(format(x, "%d")) / 7)
}
monthweeks.POSIXlt <- function(x) {
    ceiling(as.numeric(format(x, "%d")) / 7)
}
monthweeks.character <- function(x) {
    ceiling(as.numeric(format(as.Date(x), "%d")) / 7)
}
dates <- sample(seq(as.Date("2000-01-01"), as.Date("2015-01-01"), "days"), 7)
dates
#> [1] "2004-09-24" "2002-11-21" "2011-08-13" "2008-09-23" "2000-08-10" "2007-09-10" "2013-04-16"
monthweeks(dates)
#> [1] 4 3 2 4 2 2 3

Another solution to use stri_datetime_fields() from the stringi package:

stringi::stri_datetime_fields(dates)$WeekOfMonth
#> [1] 4 4 2 4 2 3 3