replace_lastname: Replace the lastnames with values from another database.

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Description

replace_lastname replaces the lastname in dataset with lastname from another database (see lastname_uk and lastname_us) in case they are too sensitive.

Usage

replace_lastname(dataset, country = "uk", race_dependency = FALSE)

Arguments

dataset	A data frame of the dataset.
country	A string variable with a default of 'uk'. It is either 'uk' or 'us'.
race_dependency	A logical variable with a default of FALSE.

Value

A data frame of the dataset with the lastname column being replaced by another lastname database.

Examples

df <- data.frame(sex=sample(c('male', 'female'), 100, replace = TRUE))
df$race <- sample(1:6, 100, replace = TRUE)
df <- add_variable(df, "nhsid")
df <- add_variable(df, "dob", age_dependency = FALSE)
df <- add_variable(df, "firstname", country = "uk", gender_dependency= TRUE, age_dependency = TRUE)
df <- add_variable(df, "lastname", country = "uk", gender_dependency= TRUE, age_dependency = TRUE)
df$firstname <-as.character(df$firstname)
df$lastname <-as.character(df$lastname)
replace_lastname(df, country = 'uk')
replace_lastname(df, country = 'us', race_dependency =TRUE)

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