SciencesPo (version 0.05.21)

anonymize: Make Anonymous Data

Description

Replaces factor and character variables by a combination of letters and numbers. Numeric columns are also transformed, see details.

Usage

anonymize(x)

Arguments

x

A vector or a data frame.

Value

• An object of the same type as x.

encoding

UTF-8

Details

Simply make it impossible recognize the original data while keeping the same structure; quite useful for sending the data for public help lists.

See Also

soundexBR.

Examples

weather <- data.frame(
month = a <- c('J','F','M','A','M','J','J','A','S','O','N','D'),
precip = b <- c(78,62,74,78,76, 83, 91, 93, 93,78, 93, 81), 
max = c <- c(-6, -4, 2, 11, 19, 24,  26,  25, 20, 13, 5, -2),
min = d <- c(-15, -13, -7, 1, 8,  13, 16, 14, 9, 3, -2, -10) 
)

anonymize(weather)