id_generator: Generate Identifiers

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Generate Identifiers

Description

Creating identifiers for new elements in a database.

The function id_solver() wil compare to set of identifiers and modify the second to avoid duplicated IDs.

Usage

id_generator(
  len,
  minvalue = 1,
  nchar = 10,
  mode = c("numeric", "character"),
  ...
)

id_solver(insert, to, suffix = c("numeric", "character"), sep = "")

Arguments

len	Numeric value indicating the length of the retrieved vector with identifiers.
minvalue	Numeric value indicating the minimum value in the vector of identifiers. Used only for 'mode = "numeric"'.
nchar	Numeric value indicating the number of characters included in the retrieved identifiers. Used only for 'mode = "character"'.
mode	Character value indicating the type of identifier created, which is either numeric (the default) or charcter.
...	Further parameters passed to stri_rand_strings(), actually to the argument 'pattern'.
insert	A vector (either numeric or character) containing IDs of elements that will be inserted in a database.
to	A vector (either numeric or character) containing IDs of elements thar already exist in target database.
suffix	A character vector indicating the mode used for the suffix. Only 'numeric' or 'character' and partial matchings are accepted here. This argument is only used for character IDs. If 'suffix = "character"', a letter of the alphabet (vector 'letters') will be appended to duplicated IDs.
sep	A character value used as separator between original character ID and the appended suffix.

Value

A vector with IDs created by id_generator(), either as numeric or character. In the case of id_solver(), a vector, which is either identical to 'insert' (if no conflicts) or a vector witht he same properties but with resolved IDs.

Examples

## Creating numeric IDs
id_generator(len = 10, minvalue = 5)

## Creating character IDs
id_generator(len = 10, mode = "character")

## Solving duplicates in numeric identifiers
id_solver(insert = c(3, 7, 5, 10), to = c(1:5))

## Solving duplicates in bibtexkeys
db_refs <- c("Alvarez2003", "Schmitz1988", "Li2023")
new_refs <- c("Alvarez2003", "Li2023", "Mueller1953", "Alvarez2003a")
any(duplicated(c(db_refs, new_refs)))

solved_refs <- id_solver(insert = new_refs, to = db_refs, suffix = "character")
solved_refs
any(duplicated(c(db_refs, solved_refs)))

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