Calculate the number of weekdays between 2 dates in R

Question

I\'m trying to write an R function to calculate the number of weekdays between two dates. For example, Nweekdays(\'01/30/2011\',\'02/04/2011\') would equal 5.

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Answer 1

Working this out using lubridate you can create a function like:

library(lubridate)

WorkingDays_function <- function(StartDate,EndDate){
startDate <- dmy(StartDate)
endDate <- dmy(EndDate)

#Now build a sequence between the dates:
myDates <-seq(from = startDate, to = endDate, by = "days")


#Week starts on Sunday (1) so to exclude Sun (1) and Sat (7)
#use > 1 & < 7  
working_days <- sum(wday(myDates)>1 & wday(myDates)<7)

print(working_days)
}

WorkingDays_function("11/07/2019","20/07/2019")