Analysing Web Tracking Data and Online News Behaviour

Documentation for package ‘webtrackR’ version 0.0.1

add_duration	Add time spent in seconds on webpage
add_panelist_data	Add panelist features to webtrack data Add characteristics of panelists (e.g. from a survey) to the webtrack data
aggregate_duration	Aggregate duration of consecutive visits to a website
as.wt_dt	An S3 class, based on data.table, to store webtrack data
audience_incidence	Create incidence matrix for audience-outlet network
audience_network	Create audience networks
bakshy	Bakshy Top500 Ideological alignment of 500 domains based on facebook data
classify_domains	Classify domains according to prespecified classes
create_urldummy	Create an urldummy variable from a data.table object
domain_list	Domain list classification of domains into news,portals, search, and social media
extract_domain	Extract domain from url
is.wt_dt	An S3 class, based on data.table, to store webtrack data
isolation_index	Isolation Index In terms of news exposure, the isolation index captures the extent to which conservatives disproportionately visit outlets whose other visitors are conservative
news_types	News Types
print.wt_dt	Print web tracking data
summary.wt_dt	Summary function for webtrack data
test_data	Test data
test_survey	Test survey
vars_exist	Check if columns are present
wt_dt	An S3 class, based on data.table, to store webtrack data