getRandString: getRandString

In wjhopper/whoppeR: Assorted utilities used by me, Will Hopper

Description

Create a psuedo-random alphanumeric string

Usage

getRandString(len = 12)

Arguments

len	The number of characters in the string created

Details

The characters in the string are sampled with a replacement from a pool of the numbers 0 through 9, A-Z, and a-z, with equal sampling probability for all items in the pool.

The string returned is not gauranteed to be unique across runs, so take care when using this function to create unique identifiers (e.g., for files names). Consider packages such as ids or uuid in situations where all generated identifies must be globally unique.

Value

A character vector of length 1

Examples

getRandString(len = 12)

wjhopper/whoppeR documentation built on May 4, 2019, 7:33 a.m.