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In duncantl/CalcOfficeHour: Find times when students are available

CalcOfficeHours

This package helps find good times for office hours by finding when the students in a course are available and unavailable using their course schedules.

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Computing the Availability

library(CalcOfficeHours)
sisr = RCurl::getCurlHandle(cookie = cookie("sisr.cookie"), followlocation = TRUE, cookiejar = "")
tm = mkTimes("141B", "STA", term = "202203", con = sisr)
plot(tm)

Existing and Intermediate Objects

We can break this into separate steps when we want the intermediate objects for other purposes, e.g., the roster, the student schedules.

We may already have the roster

ros = SISRTools::getRoster("141B", "202203", curl = sisr)

We can then pass this to mkTimes()

tm = mkTimes(ros = ros, con = sisr)
plot(tm)

However, we can also fetch the student schedules separately so we have them later.

tms = getStudentTimes(ros, sisr, "202203")

and then pass the result to mkTimes()

tm = mkTimes(studentTimes = tms)
plot(tm)

An example of the resulting display is

Guess when the course classes are?!

duncantl/CalcOfficeHour documentation built on April 5, 2022, 12:57 a.m.