detect: Detect if a data object contains PII.

In detector: Detect Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information

Description

Detect if a data object contains PII.

Usage

detect(.x)

## Default S3 method:
detect(.x)

## S3 method for class 'character'
detect(.x)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
detect(.x)

Arguments

.x	A data object.

Value

A logical value indicating if that data object contains PII.

Methods (by class)

• default: Method for default vectors.

• character: Method for character vectors.

• data.frame: Method for data.frames.

Examples

# atomic vectors
detect(letters)
detect(1:10)
detect(as.Date("2014-01-01"))

# data.frames
detect(mtcars)

Example output

  has_email_addresses has_phone_numbers has_national_identification_numbers
1               FALSE             FALSE                               FALSE
  has_email_addresses has_phone_numbers has_national_identification_numbers
1               FALSE             FALSE                               FALSE
  has_email_addresses has_phone_numbers has_national_identification_numbers
1               FALSE             FALSE                               FALSE
   column_name has_email_addresses has_phone_numbers
1          mpg               FALSE             FALSE
2          cyl               FALSE             FALSE
3         disp               FALSE             FALSE
4           hp               FALSE             FALSE
5         drat               FALSE             FALSE
6           wt               FALSE             FALSE
7         qsec               FALSE             FALSE
8           vs               FALSE             FALSE
9           am               FALSE             FALSE
10        gear               FALSE             FALSE
11        carb               FALSE             FALSE
   has_national_identification_numbers
1                                FALSE
2                                FALSE
3                                FALSE
4                                FALSE
5                                FALSE
6                                FALSE
7                                FALSE
8                                FALSE
9                                FALSE
10                               FALSE
11                               FALSE

detector documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:19 a.m.