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2019 May 20
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WISH: Built-in R session-specific universally unique identifier (UUID)
# Proposal
Provide a built-in mechanism for obtaining an identifier for the
current R session, e.g.
> Sys.info()[["session_uuid"]]
[1] "4258db4d-d4fb-46b3-a214-8c762b99a443"
The identifier should be "unique" in the sense that the probability
for two R sessions(*) having the same identifier should be extremely
small. There's no need for reproducibility, i.e. the algorithm for
producing the identifier may be changed at any time.
(*) Two R sessions...