https://github.com/paulhendricks/anonymizer

Anonymize data containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in R
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Anonymize data containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in R

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/paulhendricks/anonymizer
• Owner: paulhendricks
• License: other
• Created: 2015-08-21T13:57:13.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-07-01T18:24:32.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-06T03:04:15.737Z (3 months ago)
• Language: R
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• Stars: 71
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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```{r, echo = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "README-"

)

```

# anonymizer

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`anonymizer` [anonymizes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_anonymization) data containing [Personally Identifiable Information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_information) (PII) using a combination of [salting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29) and [hashing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function). You can find quality examples of data anonymization in R [here](http://jangorecki.github.io/blog/2014-11-07/Data-Anonymization-in-R.html), [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10454973/how-to-create-example-data-set-from-private-data-replacing-variable-names-and-l), and [here](http://4dpiecharts.com/2011/08/23/anonymising-data/).

## Installation

You can install the latest development version from CRAN:

```R

install.packages("anonymizer")

````

Or from GitHub with:

```R

if (packageVersion("devtools") < 1.6) {

  install.packages("devtools")

}

devtools::install_github("paulhendricks/anonymizer")

```

If you encounter a clear bug, please file a [minimal reproducible example](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example) on [GitHub](https://github.com/paulhendricks/anonymizer/issues).

## API

`anonymizer` employs four convenience functions: `salt`, `unsalt`, `hash`, and `anonymize`.

```{r}

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)

library(anonymizer)

letters %>% head

letters %>% head %>% salt(.seed = 1)

letters %>% head %>% salt(.seed = 1) %>% unsalt(.seed = 1)

letters %>% head %>% hash(.algo = "crc32")

letters %>% head %>% salt(.seed = 1) %>% hash(.algo = "crc32")

letters %>% head %>% anonymize(.algo = "crc32", .seed = 1)

```

### Generate data containing fake PII

```{r}

library(generator)

n <- 6

set.seed(1)

ashley_madison <- 

  data.frame(name = r_full_names(n), 

             snn = r_national_identification_numbers(n), 

             dob = r_date_of_births(n), 

             email = r_email_addresses(n), 

             ip = r_ipv4_addresses(n), 

             phone = r_phone_numbers(n), 

             credit_card = r_credit_card_numbers(n), 

             lat = r_latitudes(n), 

             lon = r_longitudes(n), 

             stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

knitr::kable(ashley_madison, format = "markdown")

```

### Detect data containing PII

```{r}

library(detector)

ashley_madison %>% 

  detect %>% 

  knitr::kable(format = "markdown")

```

### Anonymize data containing PII

```{r}

ashley_madison[] <- lapply(ashley_madison, anonymize, .algo = "crc32")

ashley_madison %>% 

  knitr::kable(format = "markdown")

```

## Citation

To cite package ‘anonymizer’ in publications use:

```

Paul Hendricks (2015). anonymizer: Anonymize Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information. R package version 0.2.0. https://github.com/paulhendricks/anonymizer

```

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

```

@Manual{,

  title = {anonymizer: Anonymize Data Containing Personally Identifiable Information},

  author = {Paul Hendricks},

  year= {2015}, 

  note = {R package version 0.2.0},

  url = {https://github.com/paulhendricks/anonymizer},

}

```