mask_numeric: Mask Numeric Data

In multiphrenic/obfuscateR: Helper funcitons for generating unsecured masked data

Description

mask_numeric will generate a set of pseudo-random numbers with n_diigts digits, without repetition. Useful to mask identification numbers such as employee ids, phone numbers, social security numbers.

Usage

mask_numeric(x, n_digits)

Arguments

x	either a vector of length > 1, or a numeric length to output
n_digits	number of digits for each random number to contain.

Value

a vector of length: x, unless x is a vector, then of length(x).

Examples

mask_numeric(rnorm(10), 5)
# [1] 80267 74569 51430 66311 77283 91240 20975 71820 47828 41642

mask_numeric(3, 5)
# [1] 94012 27969 24824

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