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Short Quasi-Unique Identifiers (SQUIDs)
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install.packages("squids")

Install from Github:
library("remotes")
install_github("cran/squids")

Install by package version:
library("remotes")
install_version("squids", "25.6.1")



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library("squids")
Maintained by
Gjalt-Jorn Peters
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First Published: 2025-05-30
Latest Update: 2025-06-07
Description:
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:10.15626/MP.2022.3638>). 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.
How to cite:
Gjalt-Jorn Peters (2025). squids: Short Quasi-Unique Identifiers (SQUIDs). R package version 25.6.1, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/squids. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.
Previous versions and publish date:
(2026-07-09 07:08), 25.5.6 (2025-05-30 11:40)
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