Pseudonymizer: R6 class for deidentification via replacement

In deident: Persistent Data Anonymization Pipeline

R6 class for deidentification via replacement

Description

A Deident class dealing with the (repeatable) random replacement of string for deidentification.

Create new Pseudonymizer object

Check if a key exists in lookup

Check if a key exists in lookup

Retrieve a value from lookup

Returns self$lookup formatted as a tibble

Convert self to a list.

Apply the deidentifcation method to the supplied keys

Arguments

lookup	a pre-existing name-value pair to define intended psuedonymizations. Instances of 'name' will be replaced with 'value' on transformation.
keys	value to be checked
...	values to concatenate to key and check
parse_numerics	True: Force columns to characters. NB: only character vectors will be parsed.

Fields

lookup

list of mapping from key-value on transform.

deident documentation built on April 3, 2025, 6:14 p.m.