socialmixr (version 0.5.0)

as_contact_survey: Check contact survey data

Description

Checks that a survey fulfills all the requirements to work with the 'contact_matrix' function

Usage

as_contact_survey(
  x,
  id_column = "part_id",
  country_column = NULL,
  year_column = NULL,
  ...,
  id.column = deprecated(),
  country.column = deprecated(),
  year.column = deprecated()
)

Value

invisibly returns a character vector of the relevant columns

Arguments

x

list containing

• an element named 'participants', a data frame containing participant information

• an element named 'contacts', a data frame containing contact information

• (optionally) an element named 'reference, a list containing information information needed to reference the survey, in particular it can contain$a "title", "bibtype", "author", "doi", "publisher", "note", "year"

id_column

the column in both the participants and contacts data frames that links contacts to participants

country_column

the column in the participants data frame containing the country in which the participant was queried; if NULL (default), will use "country" column if present

year_column

the column in the participants data frame containing the year in which the participant was queried; if NULL (default), will use "year" column if present

...

additional arguments (currently ignored)

id.column, country.column, year.column

Use the underscore versions (e.g., id_column) instead.

Examples

data(polymod)
check(polymod)