proquint: Generate random proquint identifiers
In ids: Generate Random Identifiers

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

Generate random "proquint" identifiers. "proquint" stands for PRO-nouncable QUINT-uplets and were described by Daniel Wilkerson in https://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016. Each "word" takes one of 2^16 possibilities. A four word proquint has a keyspace of 10^19 possibilities but takes only 23 characters. Proquint identifiers can be interchanged with integers (though this is totally optional); see proquint_to_int and the other functions documented on that page.

1	proquint(n = 1, n_words = 2L, use_cache = TRUE, use_openssl = FALSE)

`n`	number of ids to return. If `NULL`, it instead returns the generating function
`n_words`	The number of words for each identifier; each word has `2^16` (65536) possible combinations, a two-word proquint has `2^32` possible combinations and an `k`-word proquint has `2^(k * 16)` possible combinations.
`use_cache`	Because there are relatively few combinations per word, and because constructing short strings is relatively expensive in R, it may be useful to cache all 65536 possible words. If `TRUE` then the first time that this function is used all words will be cached and the results used - the first time may take up to ~1/4 of a second and subsequent calls will be much faster. The identifiers selected will not change with this option (i.e., given a particular random seed, changing this option will not affect the identifiers randomly selected).
`use_openssl`	Use openssl for random number generation, with the primary effect that the identifiers will not be affected by R's random seed (at a small speed cost).

In the abstract of their paper, Wilkerson introduces proquints:

"Identifiers (IDs) are pervasive throughout our modern life. We suggest that these IDs would be easier to manage and remember if they were easily readable, spellable, and pronounceable. As a solution to this problem we propose using PRO-nouncable QUINT-uplets of alternating unambiguous consonants and vowels: proquints."

# A single, two word, proquint
proquint()

# Longer identifier:
proquint(n_words = 5)

# More identifiers
proquint(10)

[1] "sagis-januj"
[1] "vavum-kikob-piziz-hopuz-vuzaj"
 [1] "tafig-huhuj" "homin-jarol" "bodim-futit" "moguh-kibur" "suzug-buvap"
 [6] "vusor-pasot" "pufak-bahup" "folil-kozuv" "jomuf-gavup" "hanof-molul"