anonymize: Anonymize a vector.

In anonymizer: Anonymize Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information

Description

anonymize anonymizes a vector .x by first salting it with salt and then hashing it with hash. See both functions for additional documentation.

Usage

anonymize(.x, .algo = "sha256", .seed = 0, .chars = letters,
  .n_chars = 5L, ...)

Arguments

.x	a vector.
.algo	the name of the algorithm.
.seed	an integer to seed the random number generator.
.chars	set of characters to salt with.
.n_chars	an integer; number of characters to salt with.
...	additional arguments to be based to hash.

Details

The user is advised to check out Wikipedia for more information.

Value

An anonymized version of the vector.

Examples

set.seed(1)
anonymize(letters)

Example output

 [1] "88004902989219b709ab0b6df47b4bd5a16d77b54b100bf90cd1892f6209eb69"
 [2] "18246e832ba9ebb0f66e00234ce9bd13072b2320197d5234bd2f9923ba7266c7"
 [3] "7e34242b3692ea9869e59789304661f0a0b57f95c2171fd5dda957cefc174ebd"
 [4] "53022e73ef8c8e6c4b9c28fe88b2f7c3dc9752614976896d26a6a5bac262696c"
 [5] "47af26e7c1c28b2bd1885aaade5ea329468c9722748ead0f4ad37038aa5431d8"
 [6] "ca49b69a827d7f354c02463a7a591b64400ad438a21d717389a31255844b0d9c"
 [7] "e1d482341c8da0f7dcb148ff25ded4ece1e950ef23ad4f7e43c8add47710302e"
 [8] "11472a257f5840e1a612b9cbcedf3925e8dbb5ef91be991eafd438203c0ac1f0"
 [9] "f0d22c7f3ef30628d3c7148f6c7e778b4a828229b1ab28535693d3061f8fc656"
[10] "794801e15d2796dd4662d97442c87bebd8264dde055312451d4c2b6978f786b1"
[11] "c4c74732547eb74de5d6dd4ff5c7cb125d4ba94cf832c02e57822d6d3a5571c9"
[12] "ea9987e5bbca0c5d709983d2fc20332b3ed55637d6a87909628b3316a3d583ff"
[13] "760c7a24f910f33231a3dd5a5ae0b7c44a2047ccc7212afe5692f8582361c344"
[14] "f18eba4da2043b26decc2a9009a0d46956dc6098c16028e3578a759b31359146"
[15] "0d00e7489fe0bd2600b0e0bf5b02d69c651d94de68bdb18e6a063679d99c3233"
[16] "5eaaf1c642f45cf2e73d4fb6975055b8d14d00f1f79450bec2e3cdc493cd65bb"
[17] "9f8a4a8a6252634125028830028aba714a52d78a198dca90fd911e646595b021"
[18] "ba59071827c458be24a3650e8691cdb04a9f17fa9208466cc5656e1e9e95f5e6"
[19] "e6338111f03e2df2ddf416c91d321d7502cb8e64afa1a3f564cc57d31d505ffd"
[20] "162599bb4d510f4e80302d05df25d223ac6e56d8d9fcdeb7ab7a0d9332f6c083"
[21] "2a6273277d80c9f93c9728b0d468f28e4453d764a6cff0a2a33c2f3e8fba03d8"
[22] "946027b956078f2e3a73b90342c693c055e8e780f917d8d0adf0cc57253fd7d4"
[23] "4c949369d988fa516e055c100acf70138dacf1ec78a5d7a12e029ed8544e6a50"
[24] "a93f41e5832362430a1b7a0d85d16b199271c3eb54672680536332351e749727"
[25] "a26345dac5fa2e703e18f69fa48789876456ecca23202aebf6fdc2c6002fc30a"
[26] "520ae4c73eb3de37cf4b365de2f0b59bfc6ff8ec81294edf531ebbae178394e3"

anonymizer documentation built on May 29, 2017, 9:29 a.m.