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Convert Collection of Numerical IDs

Source: R/utilities.R
ID.convert.Rd

Given a collection of numerical IDs, systematically change their values by a user defined value. This method is inferior to the ID.random() method. No judgement.

Usage

ID.convert(ID, deID.value = 12345)

Arguments

ID

string with ID or collection of IDs

deID.value

numeric value, preferably an integer, to add to the numeric ID; default: 12345. Values are converted from string to numeric (real) back to string to avoid the .Machine$integer.max (2,147,483,647) problem.

Value

string vector

Author

Emilio Xavier Esposito emilio.esposito@gmail.com (https://github.com/emilioxavier)

Seth Walker walker893@msu.edu (https://github.com/walker893)

Examples

IDs <- c("1234500000", "12345", NA, 12345, 1234.56, "puzzle", "00011111")
ID.convert(ID=IDs, deID.value=12345)
#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercion
#> [1] "1234512345" "24690"      NA           "24690"      "13579.56"  
#> [6] NA           "00023456"  
# [1] "1234512345" "24690"      NA           "24690"      "13579.56"   NA           "00023456"
# Warning message:
# In ID.convert(ID = IDs, deID.value = 12345) : NAs introduced by coercion