simpleID: Title Create a unique identified based on unique values in...

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Title Create a unique identified based on unique values in columns and a further unique identifier Assign unique IDs to data based either on PII columns or a combination of PII columns and a further unique identifier where available

Description

Title Create a unique identified based on unique values in columns and a further unique identifier Assign unique IDs to data based either on PII columns or a combination of PII columns and a further unique identifier where available

Usage

simpleID(
  x,
  col = names(x)[grepl("Birth|DOB|Postcode|ZIP|Name", names(x), ignore.case = T)],
  Number = FALSE,
  name = "GroupID"
)

Arguments

x	Data to assign unique IDs to
col	PII columns within data to use for assigning unique IDs
Number	Potentially incomplete unique identifier which can be used in combination with PII to assign unique IDs
name	Name to give unique ID column in output

Value

full dataset with additional ID column returned

Examples

# x <- data.frame(DOB = c("01/01/2001", "02/01/2001", "01/01/2001", "03/01/2001"),
#    name = c("A", "B", "C", "D"), surname = c("A", "B", "A", "D"),
#    ZIP = c("A", "B", "A", "D"), NHS_Number = c(2001, NA, 2001, NA))
# Number = "NHS_Number"
# name <- "GroupID"
# col = c("DOB", "name", "surname", "ZIP")
# x <- simpleID(x = x, col =  col, name = name)
# x <- simpleID(x = x, col =  col, Number = Number, name = name)

DHatziioanou/simpleepi documentation built on Sept. 24, 2024, 5:25 a.m.