Find the next date — next_date • promoutils

Given a date and a day of the week, Given a date return the next month's first Tuesday

Usage

next_date(month, which = "Tues", n = 1, call = rlang::caller_env())

Arguments

month: Character/Date. The current month. Date returned is the next month.
which: Character/Numeric. Which week day to return. Either number or abbreviated English weekday.
n: Numeric. The nth week to return (i.e. the 1st Tuesday if n = 1 and which = "Tues").
call: Environment. Calling environment for appropriate messages if used within another function.

Value

A date

Examples


# Get the next first Tuesday
next_date("2023-11-01")
#> [1] "2023-12-05"
next_date("2023-11-30")
#> [1] "2023-12-05"

# Get the next 3rd Tuesday
next_date("2023-11-01", n = 3)
#> [1] "2023-12-19"

# Oops
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
next_date("2023-11-01", n = 5)
} # }