Determines Water Year from a date field — WY • AnalystHelper

Determines Water Year from a date field

WY(date, WY.type = "FL")

Arguments

date: Date in as.POSIXct or as.Date format
WY.type: Specifies Federal ("Fed") or Florida ("FL") water years

Value

Returns water year value based on Federal (Starts Oct 1) or Florida (Starts May 1),

Examples

dates=as.Date(c("2015-05-01","2015-08-20","2015-12-15"))
WY(dates)
#> [1] 2016 2016 2016