validate_dataset: Validate input dataset

In spatialnetworkslab/homelocator: Inferring Home Locations for Social Media Users

Validate input dataset

Description

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

Usage

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

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