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Anonymise a categorical variable by replacing values

Source: R/anonymise.R
anonymise.Rd

Anonymize categorical variables such as HR variables by replacing values with dummy team names such as 'Team A'. The behaviour is to make 1 to 1 replacements by default, but there is an option to completely randomise values in the categorical variable.

Usage

anonymise(x, scramble = FALSE, replacement = NULL)

anonymize(x, scramble = FALSE, replacement = NULL)

Arguments

x

Character vector to be passed through.

scramble

Logical value determining whether to randomise values in the categorical variable.

replacement

Character vector containing the values to replace original values in the categorical variable. The length of the vector must be at least as great as the number of unique values in the original variable. Defaults to NULL, where the replacement would consist of "Team A", "Team B", etc.

Value

Character vector with the same length as input x, replaced with values provided in replacement.

See also

jitter

Examples

unique(anonymise(pq_data$Organization))
#> [1] "Team A" "Team B" "Team C" "Team D"

rep <- c("Manager+", "Manager", "IC")
unique(anonymise(pq_data$Layer), replacement = rep)
#> [1] "Team A" "Team B"