Using R cut function on dates

Question

I have a dataframe giving attendances at sports events

Crowd    matchDate
2345      1993-01-26
4567      1993-08-01
8888      1994-03-02
1298      1994-11-07         


        

Answer 1

If your question is more related to how you automatically generate the breaks and labels, maybe this will help

DF <- data.frame(matchDate = as.POSIXct(as.Date(sample(5000,100,replace=TRUE), origin="1993-01-01")))

years <- 1992:2011
DF$season <- cut(DF$matchDate, 
  breaks=as.POSIXct(paste(years,"-08-01",sep="")),
  labels=paste(years[-length(years)],years[-length(years)]+1,sep="/"))