Visualizing media files in 'WhatsApp' chat logs if chats were exported with media files

Creates summary data frames or visualizations of sent media files or file types

plot_media(
  data,
  names = "all",
  starttime = "1960-01-01 00:00",
  endtime = "2200-01-01 00:00",
  use_filetype = TRUE,
  min_occur = 1,
  return_data = FALSE,
  media_vec = "all",
  plot = "bar",
  exclude_sm = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

A 'WhatsApp' chatlog that was parsed with parse_chat and was exported usng the "with media" option.

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_filetype

If TRUE, shortens sent file attachments to file types.

min_occur

The minimum number of occurrences a media (type) has to have to be included in the visualization. Default is 1.

return_data

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

media_vec

A vector of media (types) that the visualizations will be restricted to.

plot

The type of plot that should be returned Options include "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 media (type) occurrence

Examples

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