Validate input dataset — validate_dataset • homelocator

To make sure the input dataset contains all three necessary variables: a unique identifier for the person or user a unique identifier for the spatial locaiton for the data point and a timestamp that relects the time the data point was created

validate_dataset(
  df,
  user = "u_id",
  timestamp = "created_at",
  location = "loc_id",
  keep_other_vars = F
)

Arguments

df: A dataframe with columns for the user id, location, timestamp
user: Name of column that holds unique identifier for each user
timestamp: Name of column that holds specific timestamp for each data point and it should be POSIXct
location: Name of column that holds unique identifier for each location
keep_other_vars: Option to keep or remove other variables of the input dataset