Given a collection of IDs, create random IDs from a large pool of potential IDs. The function can create random IDs comprised of number, letters, or both letters-and-numbers referred to as mixed for short.
Random IDs comprised of numbers include leading zeros (e.g., 0013).
Random IDs comprised of letters and letters-and-numbers (aka mixed) are 20 characters long and contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters.
Arguments
- ID
string with ID or collection of IDs
- ID.type
string indicating the type of random IDs to generate; default:
mixed. Three options are available. 1.numbers, 2.letters, and 3.mixed(aka, letters-and-numbers). In all instances, random IDs with letters contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters.
Author
Emilio Xavier Esposito emilio.esposito@gmail.com (https://github.com/emilioxavier)
Seth Walker walker893@msu.edu (https://github.com/walker893)
Examples
IDs <- c("1234500000", "12345", NA, 12345, 1234.56, "puzzle", "00011111")
set.seed(13)
ID.random(ID=IDs, ID.type="numbers")
#> [1] "4870" "5706" "0717" "0944" "5989" "5592" "0960"
# [1] "4870" "5706" "0717" "0944" "5989" "5592" "0960"
ID.random(ID=IDs, ID.type="letters")
#> [1] "XWEvKQIsaCtOebfTOQLT" "uGUyOZBtcXwgRNbiBChq" "TTmJCbNheHsUQsDnTQni"
#> [4] "oRunjWsEvOlsaHFwqVUk" "eBnpYgroTrWIygAeYoBw" "HlUVBpkyMDGOowcXaMhX"
#> [7] "UIdWmaXZXTqjMzJRczxs"
# [1] "XWEvKQIsaCtOebfTOQLT" "uGUyOZBtcXwgRNbiBChq" "TTmJCbNheHsUQsDnTQni"
# "oRunjWsEvOlsaHFwqVUk" "eBnpYgroTrWIygAeYoBw" "HlUVBpkyMDGOowcXaMhX"
# "UIdWmaXZXTqjMzJRczxs"
ID.random(ID=IDs, ID.type="mixed")
#> [1] "HL0WXSdG8sf5jFIJXbuz" "fUGVPSvRYS7l5LvsEjmH" "t3GCKf3JkZDgb2kuq6Be"
#> [4] "NXC9vLfKTV7tqwS3ss7F" "AywRolRrH4Myl5zvXCjA" "H0DLeZ7AGQp8RGDhLSoV"
#> [7] "vVTaHCI0rxVlJ3AU9wrK"
# [1] "HL0WXSdG8sf5jFIJXbuz" "fUGVPSvRYS7l5LvsEjmH" "t3GCKf3JkZDgb2kuq6Be"
# "NXC9vLfKTV7tqwS3ss7F" "AywRolRrH4Myl5zvXCjA" "H0DLeZ7AGQp8RGDhLSoV"
# "vVTaHCI0rxVlJ3AU9wrK"