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squids 📦

squids: Short Quasi-Unique Identifiers (🦑 SQUIDs)

The pkgdown website for this project is located at https://squids.opens.science.

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.org/mr4n). 🦑 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.

Installation

You can install the released version of squids from CRAN with:

install.packages('squids');

You can install the development version of squids from Codeberg with:

remotes::install_git('https://codeberg.org/r-packages/squids');

(assuming you have remotes installed; otherwise, install that first using the install.packages function)

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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