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Extract display coordinates from an event message

Source: R/extract_display_coords.R
extract_display_coords.Rd

Extracts display coordinates from a message that adheres to a <message_prefix> <label> format. Please note that this function called during the read_edf call with silent = TRUE. If display_coords are missing from the eyelinkRecording, run this method to see the warnings.

Usage

extract_display_coords(
  object,
  message_prefix = "DISPLAY_COORDS",
  silent = FALSE
)

# S3 method for data.frame
extract_display_coords(
  object,
  message_prefix = "DISPLAY_COORDS",
  silent = FALSE
)

# S3 method for eyelinkRecording
extract_display_coords(
  object,
  message_prefix = "DISPLAY_COORDS",
  silent = FALSE
)

Arguments

object

Either an eyelinkRecording object or data.frame with events, i.e., events slot of the eyelinkRecording object.

message_prefix

Beginning of the message string that identifies the DISPLAY_COORDS message. Defaults to "DISPLAY_COORDS".

silent

Whether to suppress a warning when DISPLAY_COORDS message is missing. Default to FALSE.

Value

A eyelinkRecording object with an additional display_coords slot (if that was object type), Either a four element numeric vector with display coordinates, or NULL if object was an events table of eyelinkRecording object. See eyelinkRecording for details.

See also

read_edf, eyelinkRecording

Examples

data(gaze)

# by passing the recording
gaze <- extract_display_coords(gaze)

# by passing events table
display_coords <- extract_display_coords(gaze$events)