r-RcppUUID

Generating Universally Unique Identificators.

RcppUUID: Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) versions 4, 5 and 7

Usage

Generate version 4 UUIDs

Generate a single random UUID:

RcppUUID::uuid_generate_random()
#> [1] "95a0b90b-46bc-4e16-b41e-cb04bb53aa71"

Generate multiple UUIDs:

RcppUUID::uuid_generate_random(5)
#> [1] "2d5caacd-7123-4072-b66f-74874f0424d9" "3c4f1e13-50af-46ab-a32a-f17cb1842875"
#> [3] "b0c0075d-f1fb-476c-9d27-0dd07c63ddef" "e6992ca8-7b32-45ab-9fa2-e11690c11c35"
#> [5] "4d9fce08-a71d-402f-9fa5-9e38fa136abb"

Check uniqueness for the uuids:

unique_n <- function(x) length(unique(x))
n <- 1000000
unique_n(RcppUUID::uuid_generate_random(n)) == n
#> [1] TRUE

Benchmarking:

Single UUID:

microbenchmark::microbenchmark(
  uuid = uuid::UUIDgenerate(FALSE),
  RcppUUID = RcppUUID::uuid_generate_random()
)
#> Unit: microseconds
#>      expr  min    lq     mean median   uq      max neval
#>      uuid 3.05 3.165 19.24921   3.28 3.36 1594.021   100
#>  RcppUUID 2.04 2.075  2.36520   2.11 2.20   20.280   100

Multiple UUIDs:

n <- 10000
microbenchmark::microbenchmark(
  uuid = uuid::UUIDgenerate(FALSE, n),
  RcppUUID = RcppUUID::uuid_generate_random(n)
)
#> Unit: milliseconds
#>      expr      min       lq     mean   median       uq      max neval
#>      uuid 25.47780 25.98014 29.13786 26.07774 26.19531 199.5827   100
#>  RcppUUID 12.76133 13.05205 17.27462 13.46904 13.69007 203.0705   100

Generate version 5 UUIDs

Generate version 5 UUIDs based on text input:

RcppUUID::uuid_generate_name(letters[1:5])
#> [1] "54a0a790-c611-5b5b-b50e-ff01490ecdfa" "d5080e36-1ba4-5cb3-861c-34b25868f7db"
#> [3] "33ed51b6-a330-5830-bda9-2bac09e15753" "b74b2afe-06d5-5fea-99cc-a7de0b492704"
#> [5] "8535136c-b0d3-5373-aa79-ab67d33a2a8e"

For the each unique input will be generated unique UUID. Check uniqueness:

uuids <- replicate(10, RcppUUID::uuid_generate_name(letters))
length(unique(as.vector(uuids))) == length(letters)
#> [1] TRUE

Validate UUIDs

RcppUUID::uuid_validate(NA_character_)
#> [1] FALSE
RcppUUID::uuid_validate("")
#> [1] FALSE
RcppUUID::uuid_validate("not uuid")
#> [1] FALSE
RcppUUID::uuid_validate(RcppUUID::uuid_generate_random(5))
#> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
RcppUUID::uuid_validate(RcppUUID::uuid_generate_nil(5))
#> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
RcppUUID::uuid_validate(RcppUUID::uuid_generate_name(letters[1:5]))
#> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE

Generate version 7 UUIDs

Generate version 7 UUIDs based on under underlying clock at a 100ns granularity:

> RcppUUID::uuid_generate_time()
[1] "0194d8f9-c2e7-71aa-801b-75ae7f44aa1d"
>

Or generate multiple:

> RcppUUID::uuid_generate_time(5)
[1] "0194d8fa-7add-735c-805b-6bbf22b78b9e" "0194d8fa-7add-735e-8012-3e0e53895b19"
[3] "0194d8fa-7add-735e-81af-bc67bb435ade" "0194d8fa-7add-735e-82b1-405bf57963ad"
[5] "0194d8fa-7add-735f-801e-efe57078b2e7"
>

These have the benefits of being monotonically increasing and hence both unique and sortable / already ordered as is asserted in the unit tests.

Installation

To install the package from the CRAN run the following command:

install.packages("RcppUUID", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Pre-releases can be installed from r-universe via

repos <- c(ru = 'https://eddelbuettel.r-universe.dev', getOption("repos"))
install.packages('RcppUUID', repos = repos)

which provides binaries for several operating systems too.

One can install the development version with the install_github() function from the remotes package:

remotes::install_github("eddelbuettel/rcppuuid")

This package contains the compiled code, therefore one has to use the Rtools to install it on Windows.

Bug reports

Use the following command to go to the page for bug report submissions:

bug.report(package = "RcppUUID")

Before reporting a bug or submitting an issue, please do the following:

• Make sure that you error or issue was not reported or discussed earlier so please, use the search function.
• Check the news list of the current version. Some errors could be caused by the package changes. It could be done with the news(package = "RcppUUID", Version == packageVersion("RcppUUID")) command.
• Make a minimal reproducible example of the code that consistently causes the error.
• Make sure that the error occurs during the execution of a function from the RcppUUID package, not from other packages.
• Try to reproduce the error with the last development version of the package from the git repository.

Please attach traceback() and sessionInfo() output to bug report. It may save a lot of time.

License

The RcppUUID package is distributed under the GPLv2 license.

Author

The package was written by Artem Klevtsov and maintained in this GitLab repo for releases 1.0.0 to 1.1.1.

Starting with release 1.1.2, the package in this repository is now maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel.