tailor_chat {WhatsR}

Restricting chat logs to certain authors or timeframes.

Description

Excluding parts of the chat by senders or timestamps

Usage

tailor_chat(
  data,
  names = "all",
  starttime = "1960-01-01 00:00",
  endtime = "2200-01-01 00:00",
  exclude_sm = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

A 'WhatsApp' chat log that was parsed with parse_chat.

names

A vector of names that the output is restricted to. Messages from other non-contained authors are excluded.

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.

exclude_sm

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

Value

A dataframe that is restricted to the specified timeframe and authors

Examples

data <- readRDS(system.file("ParsedWhatsAppChat.rds", package = "WhatsR"))
tailor_chat(data, names = c("Mallory", "Alice"))