Visualizing the number of sent messages per person in 'WhatsApp' chat logs

Plots summarizing the amount of messages per person

plot_messages(
  data,
  names = "all",
  starttime = "1960-01-01 00:00",
  endtime = "2200-01-01 00:00",
  plot = "bar",
  return_data = FALSE,
  exclude_sm = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

A 'WhatsApp' chat log 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.

plot

Type of plot to be returned, options are "bar", "cumsum", "heatmap" and "pie". Default is "bar".

return_data

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

exclude_sm

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

Value

Plots summarizing the number of messages per person

Examples

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