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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.

See also

Useful links:

Author

Roel M. Hogervorst hogervorst.rm@gmail.com

Scott Chamberlain

Kyle Voytovich

Martin Pedersen

Examples

# generate individual types of data
ch_name()
#> [1] "Lim Kulas"
ch_phone_number()
#> [1] "02171860091"
ch_job()
#> [1] "Designer, industrial/product"

# generate a data.frame
ch_generate()
#> # A tibble: 10 × 3
#>    name                    job                                  phone_number    
#>    <chr>                   <chr>                                <chr>           
#>  1 Agustin Kozey           IT sales professional                817.771.5781x049
#>  2 Lovett Collier I        Marine scientist                     1-783-405-5040  
#>  3 Infant McCullough II    Investment banker, corporate         1-160-985-5013  
#>  4 Jasmyne O'Conner        Accountant, chartered certified      223-529-3953    
#>  5 Cortney Eichmann        Community pharmacist                 965-490-8010    
#>  6 Hasan Kemmer            Adult nurse                          (485)974-6654x4…
#>  7 Mr. Tavian Koch III     International aid/development worker 933.711.9707    
#>  8 Anderson Mann-Lueilwitz Press sub                            (267)403-9146x3…
#>  9 Clemie Quigley DVM      Engineer, building services          (121)273-5106   
#> 10 Ebony Marks             Psychologist, forensic               (851)018-2824   

# 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$job()
#> [1] "Civil engineer, consulting"
x$name()
#> [1] "Sidney Waelchi"
x$color_name()
#> [1] "Magenta"
x$hex_color()
#> [1] "#01447E"

# 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_en_US$new()
x$color_name()
#> [1] "Red"
x$hex_color()
#> [1] "#C6354A"