socialmixr (version 0.7.0)

check: Check contact survey data

Description

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

Usage

# S3 method for contact_survey
check(
  x,
  id.column = "part_id",
  participant.age.column = "part_age",
  country.column = "country",
  year.column = "year",
  contact.age.column = "cnt_age",
  ...
)

Value

invisibly returns a character vector of the relevant columns

Arguments

x

A survey() object

id.column

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

participant.age.column

the column in the participants data frame containing participants' age; if this does not exist, at least columns "..._exact", "..._est_min" and "..._est_max" must exist (see the estimated.participant.age option in contact_matrix())

country.column

the column in the participants data frame containing the country in which the participant was queried

year.column

the column in the participants data frame containing the year in which the participant was queried

contact.age.column

the column in the contacts data frame containing the age of contacts; if this does not exist, at least columns "..._exact", "..._est_min" and "..._est_max" must exist (see the estimated.contact.age option in contact_matrix())

...

ignored

Examples

data(polymod)
try(check(polymod))