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obfucateId creates a vector of ID aliases of specified length

Source: R/obfuscateId.R
obfuscateId.Rd

ID aliases are pseudorandom sequences of alphanumeric upper case characters where the letter "O" is not included for readability.. User has the option of providing a character vector of aliases to avoid using. Because aliases are alphanumeric, they never contain a period ("."), honoring the ID rule enforced at data input by qcStudbook.

Usage

obfuscateId(id, size = 10L, existingIds = character(0L))

Arguments

id

character vector of IDs to be obfuscated (alias creation).

size

character length of each alias

existingIds

character vector of existing aliases to avoid duplication.

Value

A named character vector of aliases where the name is the original ID value.

Examples

library(nprcgenekeepr)
integerIds <- 1L:10L
obfuscateId(integerIds, size = 4L)
#>      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9     10 
#> "T9SY" "WIJ0" "QG1D" "5WUL" "QSGT" "CJHJ" "6Q25" "PCL0" "LX44" "NN6X" 
characterIds <- paste0(paste0(sample(LETTERS, 1L, replace = FALSE)), 1L:10L)
obfuscateId(characterIds, size = 4L)
#>     T1     T2     T3     T4     T5     T6     T7     T8     T9    T10 
#> "W6KG" "6S5G" "108U" "ZND7" "JVD4" "L2JH" "TJGT" "8D18" "3KX8" "8LJF"