obfuscateId: Create ID aliases of a specified length

In nprcgenekeepr: Genetic Tools for Colony Management

Create ID aliases of a specified length

Description

ID aliases are pseudorandom sequences of alphanumeric upper case characters where the letter "O" is not included for readability.. User has the option of providing a character vector of aliases to avoid using. Because aliases are alphanumeric, they never contain a period ("."), honoring the ID rule enforced at data input by qcStudbook.

Usage

obfuscateId(id, size = 10L, existingIds = character(0L))

Arguments

id	character vector of IDs to be obfuscated (alias creation).
size	character length of each alias
existingIds	character vector of existing aliases to avoid duplication.

Value

A named character vector of aliases where the name is the original ID value.

See Also

Other obfuscation: mapIdsToObfuscated(), obfuscateDate(), obfuscatePed()

Examples

library(nprcgenekeepr)
integerIds <- 1L:10L
obfuscateId(integerIds, size = 4L)
characterIds <- paste0(paste0(sample(LETTERS, 1L, replace = FALSE)), 1L:10L)
obfuscateId(characterIds, size = 4L)

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