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charlatan

Source: R/charlatan-package.R
charlatan-package.Rd

Make fake data, supporting addresses, person names, dates, times, colors, coordinates, currencies, digital object identifiers (DOIs), jobs, phone numbers, DNA sequences, doubles and integers from distributions and within a range.

Package API

  • ch_generate(): generate a data.frame with fake data

  • fraudster(): single interface to all fake data methods

  • High level interfaces: There are high level functions prefixed with ch_ that wrap low level interfaces, and are meant to be easier to use and provide easy way to make many instances of a thing.

  • Low level interfaces: All of these are R6 objects that a user can initialize and then call methods on the them.

Author

Scott Chamberlain [email protected]

Kyle Voytovich

Martin Pedersen

Examples

# generate individual types of data
ch_name()
#> [1] "Gloria Dicki"
ch_phone_number()
#> [1] "299.766.2669x779"
ch_job()
#> [1] "Visual merchandiser"

# generate a data.frame
ch_generate()
#> # A tibble: 10 × 3
#>    name                      job                                    phone_number
#>    <chr>                     <chr>                                  <chr>       
#>  1 Ashli King                Chemist, analytical                    1-676-519-2…
#>  2 Tamisha Littel            Administrator, Civil Service           +10(6)77406…
#>  3 Sharon Hintz              Leisure centre manager                 1-561-106-6…
#>  4 Miss Alexandra Raynor     Armed forces logistics/support/admini… 523-361-324…
#>  5 Mr. Aldo Anderson Sr.     Geoscientist                           344.953.050…
#>  6 Keisha Beer               Designer, textile                      788.090.710…
#>  7 Dr. Thomas Hoppe          Scientist, research (physical science… 772-450-3136
#>  8 Carmine Senger            Civil engineer, consulting             315.585.152…
#>  9 Ezzard Little IV          Geologist, engineering                 (091)979-60…
#> 10 Mr. Marcelino Daugherty I Designer, interior/spatial             008.729.5327

# one interface to all data types - generate the class first
#  reports the locale to be used, can change optionally
(x <- fraudster())
#> <fraudster>
#>   locale: en_US
x$job()
#> [1] "Press photographer"
x$name()
#> [1] "Roosevelt Bartell"
x$color_name()
#> [1] "Blue"
x$hex_color()
#> [1] "#0413AF"

# low level interfaces to "data providers"
# these are exported by hidden from package man page
# as most users will likely not interact with these
x <- ColorProvider$new()
x$color_name()
#> [1] "SkyBlue"
x$hex_color()
#> [1] "#B063D8"