Get week starting date from weeknum and year in R

Question

I\'m looking for a function that will get year + week number + Week day, and return a date, for example:

I would like to input the 3 following

 2015         


        

Answer 1

Using strptime:

strptime("2015Monday23", "%Y%A%U")
# [1] "2015-06-08"

Or more generally

strptime(paste0(2015, "Monday", 23), "%Y%A%U")