randomizeCharacters: Replace Data with Random Character Strings

In shuklak13/anonymizeR: Simple Functions to Anonymize Data

Description

Replace Data with Random Character Strings

Usage

randomizeCharacters(x, cols = 1:ncol(x), randomizeNames = FALSE,
  consistent = TRUE, numChars = 10)

Arguments

x	a data.frame
cols	the columns that are to be replaced - may be numeric (column indices) or character (column names). If no value is given, all columns are replaced.
randomizeNames	whether or not column names should be randomized as well
consistent	whether or not reocurring values continue to hold the same value as each other after they are randomized
numChars	the number of characters the randomized data should contain

Details

Replaces all values within the specified columns with random 10-length character strings. By default, if a value reoccurs within the column, that value will be assigned the same random character string each time. Column names are also randomized. Both of these options may be changed.

Value

data.frame with with specified columns replaced by random strings

Examples

randomCharacters(data)
randomCharacters(data, 2, consistent=FALSE)
randomCharacters(data, c("Gender","Education"), randomizeNames=TRUE)

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