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\name{quarter}
\alias{quarter}
\alias{semester}
\title{Get the fiscal quarter and semester of a date-time}
\usage{
quarter(
  x,
  type = "quarter",
  fiscal_start = 1,
  with_year = identical(type, "year.quarter")
)

semester(x, with_year = FALSE)
}
\arguments{
\item{x}{a date-time object of class POSIXct, POSIXlt, Date, chron, yearmon, yearqtr,
zoo, zooreg, timeDate, xts, its, ti, jul, timeSeries, fts or anything else that can
be converted with as.POSIXlt}

\item{type}{the format to be returned for the quarter. Can be one one of "quarter" -
return numeric quarter (default), "year.quarter" return the ending year and quarter
as a number of the form year.quarter, "date_first" or "date_last" - return the date
at the quarter's start or end, "year_start/end" - return a full description of the
quarter as a string which includes the start and end of the year
(ex. "2020/21 Q1").}

\item{fiscal_start}{numeric indicating the starting month of a fiscal year.}

\item{with_year}{logical indicating whether or not to include the quarter or
semester's year (deprecated; use the \code{type} parameter instead).}
}
\value{
numeric or a vector of class POSIXct if \code{type} argument is \code{date_first} or
\code{date_last}. When \code{type} is \code{year.quarter} the year returned is the end year of the
financial year.
}
\description{
Quarters divide the year into fourths. Semesters divide the year into halfs.
}
\examples{
x <- ymd(c("2012-03-26", "2012-05-04", "2012-09-23", "2012-12-31"))
quarter(x)
quarter(x, type = "year.quarter")
quarter(x, type = "year.quarter", fiscal_start = 11)
quarter(x, type = "date_first", fiscal_start = 11)
quarter(x, type = "date_last", fiscal_start = 11)
semester(x)
semester(x, with_year = TRUE)
}
