Dear list, here is an example of my dataset:
date <- c("20-08-2005", "27-08-2005", "19-08-2005", "29-08-2005", "01-08-2005", "01-08-2005", "25-08-2005", "15-08-2005", "11-08-2005", "12-08-2005", "18-08-2005", "02-08-2005", "04-08-2005", "15-08-2005", "17-08-2005", "24-08-2005", "15-08-2005", "30-08-2005", "30-08-2005", "02-08-2005", "05-08-2005", "04-08-2005", "22-08-2005", "11-08-2005", "25-08-2005", "29-08-2005", "07-08-2005", "04-08-2005", "08-08-2005", "08-08-2005")
hcrime <- factor(c("Aggravated Assault", "Burglary", "Robbery")) data <- cbind(date, hcrime) I have following questions: a) how can I find out the weeks of every date b) aggregate the dates falling in the same week c) sum up the different crimes per week for better understanding here is an example for a) and b): date week 27-08-2005 99 27-08-2005 99 29-08-2005 99 and here one for c): week crimes_Robbery crimes_Robbery 98 2 1 99 3 0 thank you very much for your help! best regards Marco ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.