The floor_date()
function from the lubridate
package does this nicely.
data %>%
group_by(month = lubridate::floor_date(date, "month")) %>%
summarize(summary_variable = sum(value))
Thanks to Roman Cheplyaka
https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-02-22-group_by_month_r
See more on how to use the function: https://lubridate.tidyverse.org/reference/round_date.html