anonymize_data: anonymize_data

In AngelosPsy/pssr: A suite for functions for the easy preregistration, as well as the easy sharing of data and material for experimental psychopathology studies

Description

Function for anonymizing tabular data

Usage

anonymize_data(data, col_names = NULL, algo = "md5", save = FALSE)

Arguments

data	A data frame containing the data
col_names	A character vector with the names of the columns to be anonymized
algo	The algorithm to be used in case the data are going to be hashed. Default is "random". See details for options
save	Whether a new file with the anonymized data should be saved. Default is FALSE

Details

The function will take the selected columns and fill them in with either random numbers or one of the encryption algorithms. Specifally, the different options for the algo argument are: random, md5, sha1, crc32, sha256, sha512, xxhash32, xxhash64, and murmur32.

In case the algo argument is set to random, the algorithm will generate random numbers from a gaussian distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 – this is the default arguments in the base::rnorm function.

In case the save argument is set to TRUE, a csv file is created with the anonymized data.

AngelosPsy/pssr documentation built on June 27, 2020, 8:06 p.m.