R create week numbers with specified start date - r

Question

This seems like it should be straightforward but I cannot find a way to do this.
I have a sales cycle that begins ~ August 1 of each year and need to sum sales by week number. I need to create a "week number" field where week #1 begins on a date that I specify. Thus far I have looked at lubridate, baseR, and strftime, and I cannot find a way to change the "start" date from 01/01/YYYY to something else.
Solution needs to let me specify the start date and iterate week numbers as 7 days from the start date. The actual start date doesn't always occur on a Sunday or Monday.
EG Data Frame
eg_data <- data.frame(
cycle = c("cycle2019", "cycle2019", "cycle2018", "cycle2018", "cycle2017", "cycle2017", "cycle2016", "cycle2016"),
dates = as.POSIXct(c("2019-08-01" , "2019-08-10" ,"2018-07-31" , "2018-08-16", "2017-08-03" , "2017-08-14" , "2016-08-05", "2016-08-29")),
week_n = c("1", "2","1","3","1","2","1","4"))
I'd like the result to look like what is above - it would take the min date for each cycle and use that as a starting point, then iterate up week numbers based on a given date's distance from the cycle starting date.

Answer 1

This almost works. (Doing date arithmetic gives us durations in seconds: there may be a smoother way to convert with lubridate tools?)
secs_per_week <- 60*60*24*7
(eg_data
%>% group_by(cycle)
%>% mutate(nw=1+as.numeric(round((dates-min(dates))/secs_per_week)))
)
The results don't match for 2017, because there is an 11-day gap between the first and second observation ...
cycle dates week_n nw
<chr> <dttm> <chr> <dbl>
5 cycle2017 2017-08-03 00:00:00 1 1
6 cycle2017 2017-08-14 00:00:00 2 3

Answer 2

If someone has a better answer plz post, but this works -
Take the dataframe in the example, eg_data -
eg_data %>%
group_by(cycle) %>%
mutate(
cycle_start = as.Date(min(dates)),
days_diff = as.Date(dates) - cycle_start,
week_n = days_diff / 7,
week_n_whole = ceiling(days_diff / 7) ) -> eg_data_check
(First time I've answered my own question)

Answer 3

library("lubridate")
eg_data %>%
as_tibble() %>%
group_by(cycle) %>%
mutate(new_week = week(dates)-31)

Answer 4

This doesn't quite work the same as your example, but perhaps with some fiddling based on your domain experience you could adapt it:
library(lubridate)
eg_data %>%
mutate(aug1 = ymd_h(paste(str_sub(cycle, start = -4), "080100")),
week_n2 = ceiling((dates - aug1)/ddays(7)))
EDIT: If you have specific known dates for the start of each cycle, it might be helpful to join those dates to your data for the calc:
library(lubridate)
cycle_starts <- data.frame(
cycle = c("cycle2019", "cycle2018", "cycle2017", "cycle2016"),
start_date = ymd_h(c(2019080100, 2018072500, 2017080500, 2016071300))
)
eg_data %>%
left_join(cycle_starts) %>%
mutate(week_n2 = ceiling((dates - start_date)/ddays(7)))
#Joining, by = "cycle"
# cycle dates week_n start_date week_n2
#1 cycle2019 2019-08-01 1 2019-08-01 1
#2 cycle2019 2019-08-10 2 2019-08-01 2
#3 cycle2018 2018-07-31 1 2018-07-25 1
#4 cycle2018 2018-08-16 3 2018-07-25 4
#5 cycle2017 2017-08-03 1 2017-08-05 0
#6 cycle2017 2017-08-14 2 2017-08-05 2
#7 cycle2016 2016-08-05 1 2016-07-13 4
#8 cycle2016 2016-08-29 4 2016-07-13 7

Answer 5

This is a concise solution using lubridate
library(lubridate)
eg_data %>%
group_by(cycle) %>%
mutate(new_week = floor(as.period(ymd(dates) - ymd(min(dates))) / weeks()) + 1)
# A tibble: 8 x 4
# Groups: cycle [4]
cycle dates week_n new_week
<chr> <dttm> <chr> <dbl>
1 cycle2019 2019-08-01 00:00:00 1 1
2 cycle2019 2019-08-10 00:00:00 2 2
3 cycle2018 2018-07-31 00:00:00 1 1
4 cycle2018 2018-08-16 00:00:00 3 3
5 cycle2017 2017-08-03 00:00:00 1 1
6 cycle2017 2017-08-14 00:00:00 2 2
7 cycle2016 2016-08-05 00:00:00 1 1
8 cycle2016 2016-08-29 00:00:00 4 4