generate_id: Generate unique identifier(s)

In academy-of-behavior-change/dct: Decentralized Construct Taxonomies

Description

To allow unique reference to constructs, they require unique identifiers. These functions generate such identifiers by combining one or more identifier prefixes (usually a human-readable construct name such as 'attitude') with a unique identifier based on the second the identifier was generated. The identifier prefix may only contain lowercase and uppercase letters and underscores.

Usage

generate_id(prefix = paste(sample(letters, 4), collapse = ""),
  stopOnIllegalChars = FALSE)

generate_ids(x, stopOnIllegalChars = FALSE)

Arguments

prefix	An identifier prefix.
stopOnIllegalChars	Whether to base::stop() or produce a base::warning() when encountering illegal characters (i.e. anything other than a letter or underscore).
x	A vector of identifier prefixes.

Value

a character vector containing the identifier(s).

Examples

generate_id('attitude');

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