anonymous function

anonymous

Anonymizing a data frame by avoiding vulnerability to a rainbow table attack.

anonymous(data, ID, string_length = 15, SEED = NULL)

Arguments

• data: data.frame. A dataset with the a variable to change its values.
• ID: character. A string with the variable name to change its values.
• string_length: numeric. It defines the string length of the new identification variable.
• SEED: to be passed to set.seed to keep the the same new id's.

Returns

anonymous function returns a list with two data frames: - data: original data with the new variable

• dictionary: data frame with the original variable and the new one

Examples

library(dplyr)
df <- select(mutate(mtcars, id=rownames(mtcars)), id, !contains("id"))
anonymous(df, ID="id", string_length = 5, SEED=160589)

References

Rdpack::insert_ref(key="anonymous",package="popstudy")

Author(s)

Cesar Gamboa-Sanabria