anonymous: anonymous

In popstudy: Applied Techniques to Demographic and Time Series Analysis

anonymous

Description

Anonymizing a data frame by avoiding vulnerability to a rainbow table attack.

Usage

anonymous(data, ID, string_length = 15, SEED = NULL)

Arguments

data	data.frame. A dataset with the a variable to change its values.
ID	character. A string with the variable name to change its values.
string_length	numeric. It defines the string length of the new identification variable.
SEED	to be passed to set.seed to keep the the same new id's.

Value

anonymous function returns a list with two data frames:

data	original data with the new variable
dictionary	data frame with the original variable and the new one

Author(s)

Cesar Gamboa-Sanabria

References

\insertRef

anonymouspopstudy

Examples

library(dplyr)
df <- select(mutate(mtcars, id=rownames(mtcars)), id, !contains("id"))
anonymous(df, ID="id", string_length = 5, SEED=160589)

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