In Order to get day of the week from date in R we will be using weekdays() function. Let’s see how to get day of the week from date with an example, using weekdays() function in R.
Let’s first create the dataframe.
### Create Data Frame
df1 = data.frame (
Name =c('Annie','Catherine','Teresa','Peterson','Richard','joe'),
Date_of_birth = as.Date(c('1995-06-16','1991-04-19','1993-07-22','1990-03-26','1991-05-12','1992-09-13')))
df1
dataframe df1 will be
Get day of the week from date in R
Day of the week is extracted from Date_of_birth column using weekdays() function as shown below.
df1$week_day <- weekdays(df1$Date_of_birth) df1
So the resultant data frame has a column week_day with day of the week extracted from date.
