squids: Short Quasi-Unique Identifiers (SQUIDs)

It is often useful to produce short, quasi-unique identifiers (SQUIDs) without the benefit of a central authority to prevent duplication. Although Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) provide for this, these are also unwieldy; for example, the most used UUID, version 4, is 36 characters long. SQUIDs are short (8 characters) at the expense of having more collisions, which can be mitigated by combining them with human-produced suffixes, yielding relatively brief, half human-readable, almost-unique identifiers (see for example the identifiers used for Decentralized Construct Taxonomies; Peters & Crutzen, 2024 <doi:10.15626/MP.2022.3638>). SQUIDs are the number of centiseconds elapsed since the beginning of 1970 converted to a base 30 system. This package contains functions to produce SQUIDs as well as convert them back into dates and times.

Version:	25.5.6
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2025-05-30
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.squids
Author:	Gjalt-Jorn Peters [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Gjalt-Jorn Peters <squids at opens.science>
BugReports:	https://codeberg.org/R-packages/squids/issues
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://squids.opens.science
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	squids results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	squids.pdf
Vignettes:	SQUIDs (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	squids_25.5.6.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: squids_25.5.6.zip, r-release: squids_25.5.6.zip, r-oldrel: squids_25.5.6.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): squids_25.5.6.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): squids_25.5.6.tgz, r-release (x86_64): squids_25.5.6.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): squids_25.5.6.tgz

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