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In shortuuid: Generate and Translate Standard UUIDs

shortuuid

The goal of shortuuid is to generate and translate standard UUIDs into shorter - or just different - formats and back. Inspired by short-uuid and a post on fosstodon

Installation

You can install the development version of shortuuid like so:

pak::pak("schochastics/shortuuid")

Example

This package provides functions to generate and convert UUIDs to different formats.

library(shortuuid)
# generate random uuids
ids <- generate_uuid(n = 5)
ids
#> [1] "1fc2d238-b6f2-4959-af5a-ef9950a4141a"
#> [2] "fa49a3f8-1644-4e8b-879c-a68d6292e4e1"
#> [3] "c4109bd3-4d8a-489c-a77a-3a6877ebaab8"
#> [4] "a4f70fce-0469-4044-aa4b-4fdb8ec57281"
#> [5] "e8d5f85c-897e-4911-b2f6-d29f816c6643"
is.uuid(ids)
#> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

# alphabet: "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz"
b58 <- uuid_to_bitcoin58(ids)
b58
#> [1] "4vUZZwaGqmgoLNPrhaZ7JR" "Xuam1xXi4St4kqawLF7mTW" "RDEZPCTUM76cnx3yioKHAX"
#> [4] "MNVfwXsPf2tqwEdFWqqg9N" "VkbFLW53t7FfTRUgVuxMg6"

# alphabet: "123456789abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ"
f58 <- uuid_to_flickr58(ids)
f58
#> [1] "4VtyyWzgQLFNknoRGzy7iq" "wUzL1XwH4rT4KQzWkf7Lsv" "qdeyocstm76BMX3YHNjhaw"
#> [4] "mnuEWwSoE2TQWeCfvQQF9n" "uKAfkv53T7fEsqtFuUXmF6"
# convert back
bitcoin58_to_uuid(b58)
#> [1] "1fc2d238-b6f2-4959-af5a-ef9950a4141a"
#> [2] "fa49a3f8-1644-4e8b-879c-a68d6292e4e1"
#> [3] "c4109bd3-4d8a-489c-a77a-3a6877ebaab8"
#> [4] "a4f70fce-0469-4044-aa4b-4fdb8ec57281"
#> [5] "e8d5f85c-897e-4911-b2f6-d29f816c6643"
flickr58_to_uuid(f58)
#> [1] "1fc2d238-b6f2-4959-af5a-ef9950a4141a"
#> [2] "fa49a3f8-1644-4e8b-879c-a68d6292e4e1"
#> [3] "c4109bd3-4d8a-489c-a77a-3a6877ebaab8"
#> [4] "a4f70fce-0469-4044-aa4b-4fdb8ec57281"
#> [5] "e8d5f85c-897e-4911-b2f6-d29f816c6643"

Addendum

Code to generate uuids taken from @rkg8

shortuuid documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 6:06 p.m.