generate_fake_posixct_column: Generate a Fake POSIXct Column

In FakeDataR: Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data for 'LLM' Workflows

Generate a Fake POSIXct Column

Description

Create synthetic timestamps either by mimicking an existing POSIXct vector (using its range and NA rate) or by sampling uniformly between start and end.

Usage

generate_fake_posixct_column(
  like = NULL,
  n = NULL,
  start = NULL,
  end = NULL,
  tz = "UTC",
  na_prop = NULL
)

Arguments

like	Optional POSIXct vector to mimic. If supplied, n defaults to length(like), the output range matches range(like, na.rm = TRUE), and the NA rate is copied unless you override with na_prop.
n	Number of rows to generate. Required when like is NULL.
start, end	Optional POSIXct bounds to sample between when like is NULL.
tz	Timezone to use if like has no tzone (default "UTC").
na_prop	Optional NA proportion to enforce in the output (0–1). If NULL and like is provided, it copies the NA rate from like. If like is NULL, defaults to 0.

Value

A POSIXct vector of length n.

FakeDataR documentation built on Nov. 6, 2025, 1:15 a.m.