Visualizing links in 'WhatsApp' chat logs

Visualizes the occurrence of links in a 'WhatsApp' chatlog

plot_links(
  data,
  names = "all",
  starttime = "1960-01-01 00:00",
  endtime = "2200-01-01 00:00",
  use_domains = TRUE,
  exclude_long = 50,
  min_occur = 1,
  return_data = FALSE,
  link_vec = "all",
  plot = "bar",
  exclude_sm = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

A 'WhatsApp' chatlog that was parsed with parse_chat.

names

A vector of author names that the plots will be restricted to.

starttime

Datetime that is used as the minimum boundary for exclusion. Is parsed with as.POSIXct. Standard format is "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm". Is interpreted as UTC to be compatible with 'WhatsApp' timestamps.

endtime

Datetime that is used as the maximum boundary for exclusion. Is parsed with as.POSIXct. Standard format is "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm". Is interpreted as UTC to be compatible with 'WhatsApp' timestamps.

use_domains

If TRUE, links are shortened to domains. This includes the inputs in link_vec. Default is TRUE.

exclude_long

Either NA or a numeric value. If numeric value is provided, removes all links/domains longer than x characters. Default is 50.

min_occur

The minimum number of occurrences a link has to have to be included in the visualization. Default is 1.

return_data

If TRUE, returns the subset data frame. Default is FALSE.

link_vec

A vector of links that the visualizations will be restricted to.

plot

The type of plot that should be returned Options are "heatmap", "cumsum", "bar" and "splitbar".

exclude_sm

If TRUE, excludes the 'WhatsApp' system messages from the descriptive statistics. Default is FALSE.

Value

Plots and/or the subset data frame based on author names, datetime and emoji occurrence

Examples

data <- readRDS(system.file("ParsedWhatsAppChat.rds", package = "WhatsR"))
plot_links(data)