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...identifier should be part of base R for easy access and avoid each developer having to roll their own. # Possible implementation One proposal would be to bring in Simon Urbanek's 'uuid' package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=uuid) into base R. This package provides: > uuid::UUIDgenerate() [1] "b7de6182-c9c1-47a8-b5cd-e5c8307a8efb" based on Theodore Ts'o's libuuid (https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/). From 'man uuid_generate': "The uuid_generate function creates a new universally unique identifier (UUID). The uuid will be g...