sdcTable (version 0.32.2)

attack: Attacking primary suppressed cells

Description

Function [attack()] is used to compute lower and upper bounds for a given sdcProblem instance. For all calculations the current suppression pattern is used when calculating solutions of the attacker's problem.

Usage

attack(object, to_attack = NULL, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Value

a `data.frame` with the following columns: - `prim_supps`: index of primary suppressed cells - `status`: the original sdc-status code - `val` the original value of the cell - `low`: computed lower bound of the attacker's problem - `up`: computed upper bound of the attacker's problem - `protected` shows if a given cell is accordingly protected

Arguments

object

an object of class `sdcProblem`

to_attack

if `NULL` all current primary suppressed cells are attacked; otherwise either an integerish (indices) or character-vector (str-ids) of the cells that should be attacked.

verbose

a logical scalar determing if additional output should be displayed

...

placeholder for possible additional input, currently unused;

Author

Bernhard Meindl

Examples

dims <- list(
  v1 = sdcHierarchies::hier_create("tot", letters[1:4]),
  v2 = sdcHierarchies::hier_create("tot", letters[5:8])
)

N <- 150
df <- data.frame(
  v1 = sample(letters[1:4], N, replace = TRUE),
  v2 = sample(letters[5:8], N, replace = TRUE)
)

sdc <- makeProblem(data = df, dimList = dims)

# set primary suppressions
specs <- data.frame(
  v1 = c("a", "b", "a"),
  v2 = c("e", "e", "f")
)
sdc <- change_cellstatus(sdc, specs = specs, rule = "u")

# attack all primary sensitive cells
# the cells can be recomputed exactly
attack(sdc, to_attack = NULL)

# protect the table and attack again
sdc <- protectTable(sdc, method = "SIMPLEHEURISTIC")
attack(sdc, to_attack = NULL)

# attack only selected cells
attack(sdc, to_attack = c(7, 12))