change anonymization status of a specific cell

Function changeCellStatus allows to change|modify the anonymization state of single table cells for objects ofs class sdcProblem-class.

changeCellStatus(object, characteristics, varNames, rule, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

object	an object of class sdcProblem-class
characteristics	a character vector specifying characteristics of the table cell that should be identified for each dimensional variable defining the table
varNames	a character vector specifying variable names of dimensional variables defining the tables
rule	character vector of length 1 specifying a valid anonymization code ('u', 'z', 'x', 's') to which the the cell under consideration should be set.
verbose	logical vector of length 1 defining verbosity, defaults to 'FALSE'

Value

a sdcProblem-class object

Note

Important: the i-th element of argument characteristics is uses as the desired characteristic for the dimensional variable specified at the i-th position of argument varNames!

Examples

# load primary suppressed data (as created in the example
# of \code{\link{primarySuppression}})
sp <- searchpaths()
fn <- paste(sp[grep("sdcTable", sp)], "/data/problemWithSupps.RData", sep="")
problem <- get(load(fn))

# we want to mark the cell region='D' and gender='male' primary sensitive
characteristics <- c('D', 'male')
varNames <- c('region', 'gender')
verbose <- TRUE
rule <- 'u'

# looking at the distribution of anonymization states before...
print(table(getInfo(problem, 'sdcStatus')))
#> 
#>  s  u 
#> 14  1 

# setting the specific cell as primary sensitive
problem <- changeCellStatus(problem, characteristics, varNames, rule, verbose)
#> --> The cell with ID= 14 and Frequency 11 has been set to u .

# having a second look at the anonymization states
print(table(getInfo(problem, 'sdcStatus')))
#> 
#>  s  u 
#> 13  2