charlatan
Make Fake Data
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.
charlatan makes fake data, inspired from and borrowing some code from Python's faker
Make fake data for:
- person names
- jobs
- phone numbers
- colors: names, hex, rgb
- credit cards
- DOIs
- numbers in range and from distributions
- gene sequences
- geographic coordinates
- more coming ...
Possible use cases for charlatan:
- Students in a classroom setting learning any task that needs a dataset.
- People doing simulations/modeling that need some fake data
- Generate fake dataset of users for a database before actual users exist
- Complete missing spots in a dataset
- Generate fake data to replace sensitive real data with before public release
- Create a random set of colors for visualization
- Generate random coordinates for a map
- Get a set of randomly generated DOIs (Digial Object Identifiers) to assign to fake scholarly artifacts
- Generate fake taxonomic names for a biological dataset
- Get a set of fake sequences to use to test code/software that uses sequence data
Reasons to use charlatan:
- Lite weight, very few dependencies, all deps lite weight
- Relatively comprehensive types of data, and more being added
- Comprehensive set of languages supported, more being added
- Useful R features such as creating entire fake data.frame's
cran version
install.packages("charlatan")dev version
devtools::install_github("ropensci/charlatan")library("charlatan")high level function
... for all fake data operations
x <- fraudster()x$job()#> [1] "Best boy"x$name()#> [1] "Dr. Adelard Ullrich III"x$job()#> [1] "Teacher, English as a foreign language"x$color_name()#> [1] "PaleGreen"locale support
Adding more locales through time, e.g.,
Locale support for job data
ch_job(locale = "en_US", n = 3)#> [1] "Psychologist, counselling" "Operations geologist"#> [3] "Engineer, agricultural"ch_job(locale = "fr_FR", n = 3)#> [1] "Expert bilan carbone" "Maréchal" "Déclarant en douane"ch_job(locale = "hr_HR", n = 3)#> [1] "Djelatnik koji obavlja poslove miniranja"#> [2] "Prvostupnik sanitarnog inženjerstva"#> [3] "Radnik zaposlen na rukovodećim poslovima"ch_job(locale = "uk_UA", n = 3)#> [1] "Слідчий" "Письменник" "Дерун"ch_job(locale = "zh_TW", n = 3)#> [1] "工程研發主管" "生命禮儀師" "資訊專業人員"For colors:
ch_color_name(locale = "en_US", n = 3)#> [1] "LightGoldenRodYellow" "Maroon" "MintCream"ch_color_name(locale = "uk_UA", n = 3)#> [1] "Помаранчево-рожевий" "Синій Клейна" "Зелено-сірий чай"More coming soon ...
generate a dataset
ch_generate()#> # A tibble: 10 x 3#> name job#> <chr> <chr>#> 1 Dr. Francies Stracke MD Technical brewer#> 2 Dr. Darl O'Connell Site engineer#> 3 Deeann Cartwright Photographer#> 4 Jameson Will Risk analyst#> 5 Mr. Nolan Johnston MD Secretary, company#> 6 Lori Cassin Engineer, civil (contracting)#> 7 Cole Heathcote Jr. Radiation protection practitioner#> 8 Maud Bradtke Homeopath#> 9 Dr. Aarav Schmeler Higher education careers adviser#> 10 Encarnacion Johnson Diagnostic radiographer#> # ... with 1 more variables: phone_number <chr>ch_generate('job', 'phone_number', n = 30)#> # A tibble: 30 x 2#> job phone_number#> <chr> <chr>#> 1 Engineer, electrical 712.899.2585#> 2 Public affairs consultant (778)814-7867#> 3 Acupuncturist 228.349.2737#> 4 Industrial buyer (877)893-5585#> 5 Engineer, civil (contracting) 736-920-6001#> 6 Adult nurse 1-158-403-4683#> 7 Optometrist +10(3)5619999908#> 8 Equality and diversity officer 1-103-042-2579#> 9 Music tutor 1-434-296-1629#> 10 Chief Technology Officer 1-866-990-2513x096#> # ... with 20 more rowsperson name
ch_name()#> [1] "Karri Nolan"ch_name(10)#> [1] "Coral Bernier DDS" "Miss Cleola Wyman MD"#> [3] "Eliga Roberts" "Ellery Toy-Mosciski"#> [5] "Ms. Noretta Krajcik" "Delton Cartwright"#> [7] "Leander Cartwright-Cremin" "Andre Fritsch"#> [9] "Trudy Osinski" "Ozell Harber"phone number
ch_phone_number()#> [1] "846.677.8207"ch_phone_number(10)#> [1] "(041)140-1861x299" "(714)986-0321" "+14(2)9383900035"#> [4] "792-024-7630" "+98(9)4934404941" "05682486341"#> [7] "311-816-8497" "158-272-6961" "09412768076"#> [10] "925-770-8357x9548"job
ch_job()#> [1] "Toxicologist"ch_job(10)#> [1] "Radiographer, therapeutic"#> [2] "Sports development officer"#> [3] "Site engineer"#> [4] "Archivist"#> [5] "Media planner"#> [6] "Armed forces training and education officer"#> [7] "Teacher, secondary school"#> [8] "Legal secretary"#> [9] "Sports administrator"#> [10] "Biomedical engineer"credit cards
ch_credit_card_provider()#> [1] "Diners Club / Carte Blanche"ch_credit_card_provider(n = 4)#> [1] "JCB 16 digit" "Discover" "Mastercard" "JCB 16 digit"ch_credit_card_number()#> [1] "4393236964879"ch_credit_card_number(n = 10)#> [1] "180092387684893340" "51512743884706116" "676205140541326"#> [4] "3052225761814848" "3337762150079667193" "639084767378585"#> [7] "3337168650130468408" "52586108990026422" "51556384483864878"#> [10] "869950882615296431"ch_credit_card_security_code()#> [1] "938"ch_credit_card_security_code(10)#> [1] "946" "994" "634" "794" "682" "581" "270" "697" "3179" "483"Meta
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- License: MIT
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News
charlatan 0.1.0
NEW FEATURES
- Released to CRAN.