How can I subtract two weekly dates from each other in R?

Question

I believe this question hasn't been answered for week dates, yet.

Suppose I have:

date1 <- '2015-W23'
date2 <- '2015-W30'

I want to compute the difference between these two dates as follows:

print(date1 - date2)
7

How can I do this? Thanks

is any of the answers helpful? Upvote or accept if so – slava-kohut Nov 03 '19 at 19:20 — slava-kohut, Nov 03 '19 at 19:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '19 at 19:30

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How about using tsibble package?

library(tsibble)

yearweek('2015-W23') - yearweek('2015-W30')

Time difference of -7 weeks

answered Nov 01 '19 at 19:30

Ben

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