Happy to share that ulid is now (back) on CRAN. It provides universally unique identifiers that are lexicographically sortable, which improves over the more well-known uuid generators.
ulid is a neat little package put together by Bob Rudis a few years ago. It had recently drifted off CRAN so I offered to brush it up and re-submit it. And as tooted earlier today, it took just over an hour to finish that (after the lead up work I had done, including prior email with CRAN in the loop, the repo transfer from Bob’s to my ulid repo plus of course a wee bit of actual maintenance; see below for more).
The NEWS entry follows.
Changes in version 0.3.1 (2024-04-02)
New Maintainer
Deleted several repository files no longer used or needed
Added
.editorconfig,ChangeLogandcleanupConverted NEWS.md to NEWS.Rd
Simplified
R/ directory to one source fileSimplified
src/removing redundantMakevarsAdded
ulid()aliasUpdated / edited roxygen and README.md documention
Removed vignette which was identical to README.md
Switched continuous integration to GitHub Actions
Placed upstream (header-only) library into
src/ulid/Renamed single interface file to
src/wrapper
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