uuid: Universally Unique Identifiers

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Description

Generate a UUID.

Usage

uuid(uppercase = FALSE)

hex2raw(x)

raw2hex(x, uppercase = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A vector of to convert between raw bytes and hexadecimal strings.
uppercase	Should the result be in uppercase?

Details

uuid generates a random universally unique identifier.

hex2raw converts a hexadecimal string to a raw vector.

raw2hex converts a raw vector to a hexadecimal string.

Value

For uuid, a list of length 2:

• string: A character vector giving the UUID.

• bytes: The raw bytes of the UUID.

For hex2raw, a raw vector.

For raw2hex, a character vector of length 1.

Author(s)

Kylie A. Bemis

Examples

id <- uuid()
id
hex2raw(id$string)
raw2hex(id$bytes)

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