Package: ulid
Type: Package
Title: Generate Universally Unique 'Lexicographically' 'Sortable'
        Identifiers
Version: 0.4.0.2
Date: 2026-01-11
Authors@R: c(
  person("Bob", "Rudis", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5670-2640")),
  person("Suyash", "Verma", role = "aut", comment = "ULID C++ <https://github.com/suyash/ulid/>"),
  person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", role = c("aut","cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6419-907X"),
         email = "edd@debian.org"))
Description: Universally unique identifiers ('UUIDs') can be
        sub-optimal for many uses-cases because they are not the most
        character efficient way of encoding 128 bits of randomness;
        v1/v2 versions are impractical in many environments, as they
        require access to a unique, stable MAC address; v3/v5 versions
        require a unique seed and produce randomly distributed IDs,
        which can cause fragmentation in many data structures; v4
        provides no other information than randomness which can cause
        fragmentation in many data structures. Providing an
        alternative, 'ULIDs' (<https://github.com/ulid/spec>) have
        128-bit compatibility with 'UUID', 1.21e+24 unique 'ULIDs' per
        millisecond, support standard (text) sorting, canonically
        encoded as a 26 character string, as opposed to the 36
        character 'UUID', use 'base32' encoding for better efficiency
        and readability (5 bits per character), are case insensitive,
        have no special characters (i.e. are 'URL' safe) and have a
        monotonic sort order (correctly detects and handles the same
        millisecond).
URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ulid
BugReports: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ulid/issues
NeedsCompilation: yes
Encoding: UTF-8
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Suggests: tinytest
Imports: Rcpp
LinkingTo: Rcpp
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Repository: https://eddelbuettel.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-02-26 00:27:53 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ulid
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 056d8c093ac97895a033b14f0bd2d196b49abb0a
Packaged: 2026-06-23 17:40:48 UTC; root
Author: Bob Rudis [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5670-2640>),
  Suyash Verma [aut] (ULID C++ <https://github.com/suyash/ulid/>),
  Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-907X>)
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>