Day of the Week to Return 'weekend' or 'weekday'

I'm brand new to R... I have a column in a data frame where I extracted the days of the week from a date-time column. I would like to add another column to show either "weekend" or "weekday". Where "Sat" and "Sun" return "weekend" and "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri" return "weekday"

I have tried some ifelse() statements, but it doesn't seem to work.

Thank you!

You can use %in% with ifelse to check whether the day in day_of_week column matches c("Sat", "Sun") vector. If it does,the ifelse function returns weekend. Otherwise, it returns weekday. :

dat

#  day_of_week
#1         Sat
#2         Mon
#3         Wed
#4         Sun
#5         Fri
#6         Tue
#7         Sat
#8         Wed
#9         Mon

dat$wkend_wkday <- ifelse(dat$day_of_week %in% c("Sat", "Sun"), "weekend", "weekday") 

dat
#  day_of_week wkend_wkday
#1         Sat     weekend
#2         Mon     weekday
#3         Wed     weekday
#4         Sun     weekend
#5         Fri     weekday
#6         Tue     weekday
#7         Sat     weekend
#8         Wed     weekday
#9         Mon     weekday