anonymize: Make Data Anonymous

Description

This function replaces factor and character variables by a combination of letters and numbers, and numeric columns are also transformed.

Usage

anonymize(x, keep.names = TRUE)

Arguments

A vector or a data frame

keep.names

A logical argument. If FALSE, variable names will be replaced by Xs

Value

An object of the same type as x

encoding

UTF-8

Details

By making difficult to recognize the original data while keeping the same data structure, this function is quite useful for sharing data on help lists.

Examples

Run this code

# setup data
data(ssex)
anonymize(ssex)
anonymize(ssex, keep.names=FALSE)

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