as.clickstreams: Converts a character vector or a character list into a...

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Converts a character vector or a character list into a clickstream list.

Description

Converts a character vector or a character list into a clickstream list. Note that non-alphanumeric characters will be removed.

Usage

as.clickstreams(obj, sep = ",", header = TRUE)

Arguments

obj	The character vector or character list which will be converted into a clickstream list. Each line of the vector must represent exactly one click stream.
sep	The character separating clicks (default is “,”).
header	A logical flag indicating whether the first entry of each entry in the character vector is the name of the clickstream.

Value

A list of clickstreams. Each element is a vector of characters representing the clicks. The name of each list element is either extracted from the character vector or a unique number.

Author(s)

Michael Scholz [e-mail]

See Also

print.Clickstreams, randomClickstreams

Examples

clickstreams <- c("User1,h,c,c,p,c,h,c,p,p,c,p,p,o",
               "User2,i,c,i,c,c,c,d",
               "User3,h,i,c,i,c,p,c,c,p,c,c,i,d",
               "User4,c,c,p,c,d",
               "User5,h,c,c,p,p,c,p,p,p,i,p,o",
               "User6,i,h,c,c,p,p,c,p,c,d")
cls <- as.clickstreams(clickstreams, header = TRUE)
print(cls)

clickstream documentation built on Sept. 27, 2023, 5:06 p.m.