Determine the Quarter in which the Specific Date lies in R Programming – quarters() Function Improve Improve Like Article Like Save Share Report quarters() function in R Language is used to determine the quarter in which a specific date passed to it as argument lies. Syntax: quarters(date) Parameters: date: Date to be checked Example 1: # R program to find the quarter # of a specific date # Specifying the date date <- as.POSIXlt("2020-06-23") date # Calling quarters() function quarters(date) Output: [1] "2020-06-23 UTC" [1] "Q2" Example 2: # R program to find the quarter # of a specific date # Specifying the date date <- as.POSIXlt("1994-01-17") date # Calling quarters() function quarters(date) Output: [1] "1994-01-17 UTC" [1] "Q1" Last Updated : 24 Jun, 2020 Like Article Save Article Previous Calculate the absolute value in R programming - abs() method Next Compute a Sequence of Equally Spaced Round values in R Programming - pretty() Function Share your thoughts in the comments Add Your Comment Please Login to comment...