I'm brand new to R... I have a column in a data frame where I extracted the days of the week from a date-time column. I would like to add another column to show either "weekend" or "weekday". Where "Sat" and "Sun" return "weekend" and "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri" return "weekday"
day_of_week | wkend_wkday |
---|---|
Sat | |
Mon | |
Wed | |
Sun | |
Fri | |
Tue | |
Sat | |
Wed | |
Mon |
I have tried some ifelse()
statements, but it doesn't seem to work.
Thank you!
You can use
%in%
withifelse
to check whether the day inday_of_week
column matchesc("Sat", "Sun")
vector. If it does,theifelse
function returnsweekend
. Otherwise, it returnsweekday
. :