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Would a rose by any procedurally generated name still smell as sweet?
The goal of proceduralnames is to make it easy to quickly generate unique-enough identifier strings for easy differentiation of objects or observations.
If the CRAN badge above is green, you can install the released version of proceduralnames from CRAN with:
install.packages("proceduralnames")You can always install the development version of proceduralnames from GitHub via:
remotes::install.github("mikemahoney218/proceduralnames")At the moment, proceduralnames provides three user-facing functions:
make_docker_names, make_english_names, and
make_spanish_names. make_docker_names makes
names in the same way Docker generates names for its containers:
library(proceduralnames)
make_docker_names(1)
#> [1] "optimistic_shirley"make_english_names and make_spanish_names
both generate names using a subset of the 1,000 most common words in
English or Spanish, respectively:
make_english_names(1)
#> [1] "night_solve_noise"
make_spanish_names(1)
#> [1] "grandes_silencio_programa"All three functions can be used to generate multiple names by
providing a different number to the n argument.
make_english_names and make_spanish_names both
have an argument, n_words, which can be used to alter the
number of words combined for each name. All three functions also have an
argument, retry (named after the argument used in
generating Docker container names) which will append a random integer
between 1 and 10 to the end of each name:
make_docker_names(1, retry = TRUE)
#> [1] "confident_mclean9"In addition to these functions, proceduralnames provides the data
sets each function draws from (namely, docker_adjectives,
docker_names, common_words, and
spanish_words). These data may evolve with each release of
the package, so try not to depend on the length and contents of each
vector remaining constant, but the fundamental shape of each object will
remain stable.
Note that the emphasis of this package is on generating human-readable identifiers, not necessarily universally unique strings. If you need strings which are functionally universally unique for your application, look into the uuid package.
These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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