The RcppUUID package on CRAN has been providing UUIDs (based on the underlying Boost library) for several years. Written by Artem Klemsov and maintained in this gitlab repo, the package is a very nice example of clean and straightforward library binding.
When we did our annual BH upgrade to 1.87.0 and check reverse dependencies, we noticed the RcppUUID needed a small and rather minor update which we showed as a short diff in an issue filed. Neither I nor CRAN heard from Artem, so the packaged ended up being archived last week. Which in turn lead me to make this minimal update to 1.1.2 to resurrect it, which CRAN processed more or less like a regular update given this explanation and so it arrived last Friday.
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a a ‘new package’ note (no diffstat report yet). More detailed information is on the RcppUUID page, or the github repo.
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