generator

generator generates data containing fake Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Once complete, generator will be able to generate the following types of PII:

• Full name
• Home address
• E-mail address
• National identification number
• Passport number
• IP address
• Vehicle registration plate number
• Driver's license number
• Credit card number
• Date of birth
• Birthplace
• Telephone number
• Latitude and longtiude

State of the Union

Complete!

• Full name
• E-mail address
• Date of birth
• Telephone number
• Latitude and longtiude

Needs more work...

• National identification number
• IP address
• Credit card number

Haven't even started :(

• Home address
• Vehicle registration plate number
• Driver's license number
• Birthplace

Installation

You can install the latest development version from CRAN:

install.packages("generator")

Or from GitHub with:

if (packageVersion("devtools") < 1.6) {
  install.packages("devtools")
}
devtools::install_github("paulhendricks/generator")

If you encounter a clear bug, please file a minimal reproducible example on GitHub.

API

Generate data containing fake PII

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")

name	snn	dob	email	ip	phone	credit_card	lat	lon
Eldridge Pfannerstill	442-34-5338	1993-04-28	ntakqojv@lgbcyk.rkv	45.84.71.225	6794976958	4125-7204-9193-5140	-2.7018575	8.634988
Augustine Homenick	799-44-6396	1912-09-08	iqg@mtcuh.viy	191.116.55.106	3275827694	2182-5994-2283-9486	-70.4148630	-65.827918
Jennie Runte	941-11-5441	1985-01-12	wjszy@sjhreocvt.gbp	27.128.73.17	7419351735	4370-4866-4735-7857	-45.4091701	-79.932229
Araceli Kunde	290-44-2675	1948-04-28	uljsnvhfr@qfdkumtn.jkd	221.47.229.86	3243246285	6682-5074-2898-9396	-0.2673845	103.514583
Josue Rau	686-88-8446	1996-06-14	c@lqxzkdpi.nfy	157.136.114.185	9169736873	4510-3757-4858-5236	-22.8839925	72.886505
Elnora Zemlak	212-40-7016	1976-01-09	capvnl@nympzf.gsk	143.20.199.87	3295843196	7206-6205-2194-6432	78.2444466	-120.590050

Citation

To cite package ‘generator’ in publications use:

Paul Hendricks (2015). generator: Generate Data Containing Fake Personally Identifiable Information. R package version 0.1.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=generator

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{,
  title = {generator: Generate Data Containing Fake Personally Identifiable
Information},
  author = {Paul Hendricks},
  year = {2015},
  note = {R package version 0.1.0},
  url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=generator},
}