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Parsing, Anonymizing and Visualizing Exported 'WhatsApp' Chat Logs

v1.0.6 · Jul 14, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

Imports 'WhatsApp' chat logs and parses them into a usable dataframe object. The parser works on chats exported from Android or iOS phones and on Linux, macOS and Windows. The parser has multiple options for extracting smileys and emojis from the messages, extracting URLs and domains from the messages, extracting names and types of sent media files from the messages, extracting timestamps from messages, extracting and anonymizing author names from messages. Can be used to create anonymized versions of data.

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r-devel-macos-arm64 OK
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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 6, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 3, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘qdap’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies stringi qdapRegex readr tokenizers data.table ggplot2 anytime mgsub qdap ggwordcloud dplyr ragg checkmate visNetwork lubridate +1 more dependencies WhatsR

Version History

new 1.0.6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.6 ← 1.0.4 diff Jul 13, 2025
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.2 diff Jan 28, 2024
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Nov 20, 2023
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0 diff Jun 1, 2023
new 1.0 May 25, 2023