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UUIDgenerate

Generate UUID

UUIDgenerate generates a new Universally Unique Identifier. It can be either time-based or random.

UUIDgenerate(use.time = NA, n = 1L)

`use.time`	logical, if `TRUE` then time-based UUID is generated, if `FALSE` then a random UUID is generated, if `NA` then random one is generated if a sufficiently reliable source of random numbers can be found, otherwise a time-based UUID is generated.
`n`	integer, number of UUIDs to generate. Must be in [0, 2^31)

String, UUID in lowercase form.

Simon Urbanek, based on libuuid by Theodore Ts'o.

UUIDgenerate()
UUIDgenerate(TRUE)
UUIDgenerate(FALSE)
## see if the randomness is any good
length(unique(UUIDgenerate(n=1000)))

Tools for Generating and Handling of UUIDs

v0.1-4

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Simon Urbanek <Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org> (R package), Theodore Ts'o <tytso@thunk.org> (libuuid)

Initial release