Re: [R] Advice on obscuring unique IDs in R

2011-01-06 Thread Petr Savicky
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:19:49PM +, Anthony Staines wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > This may be a question with a really obvious answer, but I > can't find it. I have access to a large file with real > medical record identifiers (mixed strings of characters and > numbers) in it. These represen

Re: [R] Advice on obscuring unique IDs in R

2011-01-05 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Jan 5, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Anthony Staines wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > This may be a question with a really obvious answer, but I > can't find it. I have access to a large file with real > medical record identifiers (mixed strings of characters and > numbers) in it. These represent medical eve

Re: [R] Advice on obscuring unique IDs in R

2011-01-05 Thread Seeliger . Curt
Dr. Anthony wrote on 01/05/2011 01:19:49 PM: > This may be a question with a really obvious answer, but I > can't find it. I have access to a large file with real > medical record identifiers (mixed strings of characters and > numbers) in it. ... It's not that trivial of a question, or more organi

[R] Advice on obscuring unique IDs in R

2011-01-05 Thread Anthony Staines
Dear colleagues, This may be a question with a really obvious answer, but I can't find it. I have access to a large file with real medical record identifiers (mixed strings of characters and numbers) in it. These represent medical events for many thousands of people. It's important to be able to l