Anonymize information in the dataframe.

Anonymize information in the dataframe.

anonymize(df, cols_to_anon = "name", algo = "crc32")

Arguments

df	The dataframe you wish to anonymize
cols_to_anon	The columns to anonymize. The default is people's names.
algo	The algorithms to be used. The available choices are md5, which is also the default, sha1, crc32, sha256, sha512, xxhash32, xxhash64, and murmur32.

Value

Returns a dataframe with an anonymized column named 'id'.

Examples

DF <- data.frame(name = c("John", "Jon", "Jonathan", "Jon"),
      year = c(2010,2010,2011,2011), pay = c(5000,7000,8000,7000))
anonymize(DF)
#>       name year  pay       id
#> 1     John 2010 5000 a8b13f77
#> 2      Jon 2010 7000 caf56f5d
#> 3 Jonathan 2011 8000 10d899e9
#> 4      Jon 2011 7000 caf56f5d
df <- anonymize(df=sals18, cols_to_anon = "place_of_residence")