Get weekday name from date — weekday_name • fundr

Returns the day of week name for a date.

Usage

weekday_name(date, abbreviate = FALSE)

Arguments

date: Date vector (or coercible via as.Date()).
abbreviate: Logical. If TRUE, returns abbreviated name (e.g., "Fri"). If FALSE (default), returns full name (e.g., "Friday").

Value

Character vector of weekday names.

See also

Other date-utilities: bucket_recency(), date_interval(), is_within(), last_weekday(), next_weekday()

Examples

weekday_name(as.Date("2024-06-14"))
#> [1] "Friday"
#> "Friday"

weekday_name(as.Date("2024-06-14"), abbreviate = TRUE)
#> [1] "Fri"
#> "Fri"