To provide a reproducible example of an approach, a data set must often be provided. Instead of building an example data set, I wish to use some of my own data. However this data can not be released. I wish to replace variable (column) names and factor levels with uninformative place holders (eg. V1….V5, L1….L5).
Is an automated way to do this available?
Ideally, this would be done in R, taking in a data.frame and producing this anonymous data.frame.
With such a data set, simply search and replace variable names in your script and you have a publicly releasable reproducible example.
Such a process may increase the inclusion of appropriate data in reproducible examples and even the inclusion of reproducible examples in questions, comments and bug reports.
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I don't know whether there was a function to automate this, but now there is ;)