Ruuid-class {Ruuid}R Documentation

Class "Ruuid": A class to manage UUID values

Description

Class Ruuid wraps and handles the UUID values for the user within R.

Objects from the Class

Objects are not intended to be directly created. A user can retrieve a new instantiation of this class with the getuuid function.

Slots

stringRep:
Object of class "character" A human readable string representation of the ID
uuid:
Object of class "uuidt" Contains the actual UUID value.

Methods

stringRep
Retrieves the string representation of the UUID
uuid
Retrieves the "uuidt" object
print
Outputs the string representation of the UUID
as.character
Returns the string representation of the UUID
==
Returns true if both arguments are Ruuid objects and have the same string representation.
!=
Returns true if both arguments are Ruuid objects and have different string representations.

Author(s)

R. Gentleman and Jeff Gentry

References

Theodore Ts'o's Universally Unique ID library
http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/home.html

See Also

getuuid, uuidt

Examples

z <- getuuid()
z
class(z)

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